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Date:        Mon, 5 Jun 2000 19:25:15 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se>
To:        Doug Poland <dpoland@execpc.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kernel config error message
Message-ID:  <20000605192515.A1244@student.csd.uu.se>
In-Reply-To: <NDBBKMNOJKJGAEKJNLIAMEDCDOAA.dpoland@execpc.com>; from dpoland@execpc.com on Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 10:53:15AM -0500
References:  <NDBBKMNOJKJGAEKJNLIAMEDCDOAA.dpoland@execpc.com>

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On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 10:53:15AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm attempting to create a custom kernel with SYSVR4 
> shared memory options.  The following options were 
> taken from a 3.1R kernel that I used for over a year.  
> I just upgraded to 4.0R and now when I attempt to run 
> the config with these options, I get the following message...
> 
> canaan# /usr/sbin/config -g CANAAN
> config: line 41: The `=' in options should not be quoted
> 
> The following is my SYSV memory options (line numbers 
> added for this email and are not in the kernel file)
> 
> 37   # System V Shared memory options
> 38   options     SYSVSHM      #SYSV-style shared memory
> 39   options     SYSVMSG      #SYSV-style message queues
> 40   options     SYSVSEM      #SYSV-style semaphores
> 41   options     "SHMMAX=(SHMMAXPGS*PAGE_SIZE+1)"
> 42   options     SHMMAXPGS=5000
> 
> Any ideas why I'm getting the error message?  Is it even 
> significant?  

Remove the quotes (") from line 41 (as the error message suggests) and
things should work better. The syntax of the config files has changed 
slightly between 3.x and 4.x. 
For one thing many things that had to be within quotes in 3.x are no
longer required to be so.

> 
> BTW, the reason I'm creating this kernel is for sybase.  
> So far, I have not got it running on 4.0R (it did run
> on 3.1R).
> 
> Many thanks for your help.
> 


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