From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 31 19:52:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 628CF16A40F for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:52:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhorne@dfwlp.org) Received: from zeus.dfwlp.com (zeus.dfwlp.com [208.11.134.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFBAE43D55 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:52:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhorne@dfwlp.org) Received: from webmail.dfwlp.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.dfwlp.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9VJqMaK091578 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:52:22 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jhorne@dfwlp.org) Received: from 192.168.125.134 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jhorne) by webmail.dfwlp.org with HTTP; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:52:22 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <4124.192.168.125.134.1162324342.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org> In-Reply-To: <20061031184410.GE3839@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3961.192.168.125.134.1162319705.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org> <20061031184410.GE3839@dan.emsphone.com> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:52:22 -0600 (CST) From: "Jonathan Horne" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL autolearn=ham version=3.1.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.6 (2006-10-03) on zeus.dfwlp.com Subject: Re: ive been trying to build a kernel all morning! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:52:29 -0000 > In the last episode (Oct 31), Jonathan Horne said: >> i have a 6.2-PRERELEASE machine, that i am trying to build a >> 6.1-RELEASE-p10 kernel and world on. >> >> before i began, i did a rm -rf /usr/src/* /usr/obj/*, and then did a >> fresh >> cvsup of RELENG_6_1. i do the same thing i always do, which would be to >> cd to /usr/src, and then issue 'make -j 6 buildkernel >> KERNCONF=[CONFNAME] >> (in this case, a conf file named REGULUS). > > First step: get rid of the -j6, so the build stops as soon as there's a > compile error. Or, record the entire output of make and scan it > top-down for the first error message. > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com well, it turned out to be an easy to solve problem. my issue was, that i was not building the world prior to building the new kernel. after i did a buildworld, buildkernel then completed as would be expected. cheers, jonathan