From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 5 20:21:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA09634 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 20:21:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.tm.net.my (janeway.tm.net.my [202.188.0.155]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA09629 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 20:21:25 -0800 (PST) From: sweeting@tm.net.my Received: from [111.111.111.110] ([202.184.153.105]) by mail.tm.net.my (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA10428; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 12:20:25 +0800 (SGT) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 12:20:25 +0800 (SGT) X-Sender: sweeting@mail.tm.net.my Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Doug White Subject: Re: TIMEZONE and DST .... making the kernel (was Re: 2.2-GAMMA.) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug, thank you again for your help - do you ever sleep ? >> >> 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? i thought so : all the ssys.* files from src directory of 2.1.7-RELEASE but ...... >You may have sucked in ssys.inf too, or when you reconstituted the tar.gz, >one of the archives was out of order. you are correct, i had ssys.inf too !!! i will go back and get everything except ssys.inf this time. >Use this command: > >cat ssys.* | tar xzf - > >Cat will process them in the proper order. cheers, i tried that first time and was told it wasn't a tar file so i made one big tarball first. >> 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? will do if it doesn't work without ssys.inf this time. >> >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? i won't trouble you with that - gonna go try without the ssys.inf file first. thank you again for your great help chas