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Date:      Mon, 17 Mar 2003 18:51:16 -0800
From:      "Rev. Joe Doyle Ardent" <ardent@nebcorp.com>
To:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Make failure
Message-ID:  <20030318025116.GA95911@nebcorp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030318025111.94BEA48463@wastegate.net>
References:  <BDELILKGNFPFIMOJKDOIKEIICMAA.davidmarkle@comcast.net> <20030318025111.94BEA48463@wastegate.net>

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On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 09:49:45PM -0500, Doug Reynolds wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 16:43:07 -0500, David Markle wrote:
> 
> >Can someone help me with a kernel rebuild make problem ??
> >
> >I have the source tree in place and modified my CUSTOM kernel in
> >/usr/src/sys/i386/conf.  When I run make buildkernel it fails with the
> >following error:
> >
> >make: don't know how to make buildkernel. Stop
> >
> >I know I have missed something stupid, but can't find it on the site.
> >Thanks in advance.
> 
> Maybe I am wrong, but unless you've 'make buildworld', you can't 'make
> buildkernel'.  you have to do it the 'old-fashoned way'
> 
	I may be missing something from the original post (I just joined 
the list), but your PWD needs to be /usr/src when running "make 
buildkernel".  Also, you must define KERNCONF, like:

    # cd /usr/src
    # make buildkernel KERNCONF=CUSTOM
    # make installkernel KERNCONF=CUSTOM

(taken from 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html)



-Joe

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