From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 14 6:16:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5328737B401 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 06:16:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04D3443EB1 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 06:16:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA22214; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 23:16:32 +1000 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 23:26:55 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: Julian Elischer Cc: FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: Is this a tool problem or source? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20021014231903.X1611-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: > ref3# make > linking kernel.debug > ld: target elf32-i386-freebsd not found > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/REF3. > ref3# > > having done a new cvsup and a new config.. > UPDATING has nothing relevant that I can see. Looks like you tried to build a current kernel under a release version of FreeBSD. This fails because of spelling changes in binutils. The target was spelled elf32-i386 but it is now spelled elf32-i386-freebsd. So old binutils can't link current kernels and current binutils can't link old kernels. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message