From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 5 18:01:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA01445 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 18:01:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA01433 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 18:00:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA27117; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 18:00:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 18:00:37 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: sweeting@tm.net.my cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TIMEZONE and DST .... making the kernel (was Re: 2.2-GAMMA.) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 6 Mar 1997 sweeting@tm.net.my wrote: > > >> Aside from a large number of warnings about type mismatches (comparing signed > >> to unsigned values), it finally dies compiling param.c noting that > >>TIMEZONE and > >> DST aren't defined. Hm, I don't have a TIMEZONE or DST in param.c. Are you sure you grabbed the right source? > > > >Try removing /usr/src/sys and reinstalling it. Leftover garbage will > >confuse things sometimes. > > ok, i removed /usr/src/sys and got hold of the ssys.* files again. > when the whatever.tar.gz (created from the ssys.* files) is decompressed, it > says that the garbage is ignored. You may have sucked in ssys.inf too, or when you reconstituted the tar.gz, one of the archives was out of order. Use this command: cat ssys.* | tar xzf - Cat will process them in the proper order. > i customised the GENERIC config file and tried to make it.... > still the DST and TIMEZONE errors occured and sure enough, looking in param.c > the DST and TIMEZONE variables do seem to be used before assigned values > but then again, i'm not a coder ...... Have you tried just building GENERIC? > >IT's the ssys distribution, and just look over GENERIC for anything > >important. All the opts are in LINT. > > did i perhaps make a boo boo in the config file ???? Maybe. Can I see it? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major