Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 23:00:38 -0600 From: Gerd Knops <gerti@bitart.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: erich alfred heine <eheine@students.uiuc.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More kernel compile problems Message-ID: <20001119050038.10536.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> In-Reply-To: <20001118153531.I18037@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10011181716010.26478-100000@ux7.cso.uiuc.edu> <20001118153531.I18037@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * erich alfred heine <eheine@students.uiuc.edu> [001118 15:25] wrote: > > Im trying to compile my kernel, and I have been getting some pretty > > wierd errors. Im running a PII box, with a 3C900 network card, a > > Matrox Millenium G200 vid card, a atapi zip drive, an atapi CD, and > > 2 ide hard disk drives. I have included the errors and my config > > file. If you need more info, ill provied what i can. > > This is a symptom of not reading /usr/src/UPDATING > > > src/sys/i386/i386/locore.s > > /tmp/ccQE4325.s: Assembler messages: > > /tmp/ccQE4325.s:1743: Error: .space specifies non-absolute value > > /tmp/ccQE4325.s:2454: Error: undefined symbol L0^A in operation > > setting PTmap > > /tmp/ccQE4325.s:2454: Error: undefined symbol PDRSHIFT in operation > > setting PTma > Actually I can understand the confusion, and it has to do with the dreaded new kernel build method: A fresh install (I just did this with 4.2 beta) is not able to build a kernel using the 'make buildkernel' method without previously doing a 'make buildworld'. This is rather counter-productive, as it forces anyone who wants to customize the kernel to also to a (superfluous) make buildworld. Yes, the 'old' method of building a kernel works, but that method is depriciated. This should either be fixed or at the very least mentioned in '/usr/src/UPDATING'. Gerd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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