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Date:      Sun, 26 Mar 2000 23:18:29 -0800 (PST)
From:      David Daugherty <doc@wcug.wwu.edu>
To:        Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.0-stable GENERIC->COMP_NAME
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000326231604.25704B-100000@sloth>
In-Reply-To: <20000326193506.W86036@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>

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On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote:

> David Daugherty wrote:
> > All I'm doing is copying GENERIC to TRUMAN and then trying to recompile.
> > I've tried this with only changing the ident field to TRUMAN also. So,
> > running a diff on the two config files would give nothing.
> 
> weird. Have you tried "config -r TRUMAN" to make sure you getting a
> perfectly clean compile directory? And you are doing "make depend" in
> the compile directory, aren't you? If it works with GENERIC with the
> same sources, and doesn't work with a config file called TRUMAN, that's
> rather weird. Have you also tried "config -r GENERIC" to make sure that
> GENERIC does really work, and wasn't working before because of stale files
> or something?
That did the trick. Thank you..."I kiss you" :)

I wonder what I did wrong to necessitate the '-r' flag? Thank you very
much. Now I can go on and start building my customized kernel.

David
doc@wcug.wwu.edu
Washington State Resident
ICQ 21106703



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