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Date:      Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:15:50 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Rob Clark <rpclark@tds.net>
Subject:   Re: GENERIC make buildkernel error / fails - posix_fadvise
Message-ID:  <201201120815.50838.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120111161110.4258969c.rpclark@tds.net>
References:  <20120111161110.4258969c.rpclark@tds.net>

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On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 4:11:10 pm Rob Clark wrote:
> System: Dell 600sc
> Currently running: 8.2-RELEASE
> 
> In attempting to update this system to 8-STABLE I did
> what I usually do to update a system (see below).
> make buildworld completes successfully, but make
> buildkernel does not. I usually create a custom
> kernel, but for this system I went with GENERIC as
> is.  
> 
> The error message is: 
> /usr/src/sys/kern/init_sysent.c:568: error: invalid
> application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type 'struct
> posix_fadvise_args' /usr/src/sys/kern/init_sysent.c:568:
> error: 'posix_fadvise' undeclared here (not in a
> function) *** Error code 1

This sounds like you have an incomplete tree that only got part of a change 
(specifically, /usr/src/sys/sys/sysproto.h seems stale).  Have you tried a 
different cvsup mirror?

-- 
John Baldwin



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