From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 14 20:57:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 079B916A4CE for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 20:57:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from hamptonhouse.org (cpe-66-87-223-101.co.sprintbbd.net [66.87.223.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D9D43D64 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 20:57:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rich@hamptonhouse.org) Received: from hamptonhouse.org (penguin.hamptonhouse.org [192.168.0.71]) by hamptonhouse.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0F4vFCR028228 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 21:57:16 -0700 Message-ID: <40061DAB.9090002@hamptonhouse.org> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 21:57:15 -0700 From: Rich Hampton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030630 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org References: <4005FFC9.20308@hamptonhouse.org> <20040115031013.GA52532@xor.obsecurity.org> <400613C4.1090105@hamptonhouse.org> <20040115042921.GA18510@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <4006191C.6000108@hamptonhouse.org> <20040115044616.GB18510@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20040115044616.GB18510@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: syscons on U10 /w Creator X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 04:57:19 -0000 Ken Smith wrote: >On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:37:48PM -0700, Rich Hampton wrote: > > > >>Nope, I used vim. >> >> > >Ok, I don't think vim can do what I had in mind but I've seen the >symptoms you described. Emacs is capable of leaving a file that >doesn't have a newline character at the end of the last line of >the file. config(8) *really* loses it if either the kernel config >file itself or any of the support files config(8) uses doesn't have >the newline character at the end of the last line. > >The students here tend to use emacs, and I usually have around five >each year that have kernel builds blow up because when they added >some new files to include in the kernel build they didn't press >the return key at the end of the last line in sys/conf/files. Usually >config(8) runs without complaint but the kernel compile fails with >issues like what you had. > > > You know, for what it's worth, I've been bouncing back and forth between the old build method and the new. I didn't expect that to make any difference but maybe it's worth mentioning. Rich