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Date:      Tue, 21 May 2002 15:38:00 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Jimbo <jimbo@jimbosworld.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kernel won't compile
Message-ID:  <20020521153800.A40833@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <004301c2006f$51800730$3264a8c0@jimbosath2000>; from jimbo@jimbosworld.org on Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:29:22PM -0400
References:  <001f01c20062$bc5cf980$3264a8c0@jimbosath2000> <20020521134051.A40442@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <003501c2006a$781dfdc0$3264a8c0@jimbosath2000> <20020521142151.A40576@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <004301c2006f$51800730$3264a8c0@jimbosath2000>

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On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:29:22PM -0400, Jimbo wrote:
> No - it does not.  I have no idea why not, as I've certainly never removed
> ANY copy of mkdep from ANY directory - I wonder if there's a problem with
> the 4.5-RELEASE distro not installing it by default with an installation
> from CD?
> 
> I'm most of the way through an installation of gcc32 from
> /usr/ports/lang/gcc32 now.  I see that it's already placed a copy of mkdep
> in its work directory, so this should fix the problem, I would assume.
> 
> Has anybody else ever noticed mkdep missing for some strange reason from a
> BSD installation?

Odd.

> Incidentally, not only was mkdep missing from /usr/bin, when I performed a
> find / -iname mkdep, it was only discovered in /usr/src/usr.bin and a couple
> of work directories for one random port or another.  Most strange indeed...

Well, you should be able to:

    # cd /usr/src/usr.bin/mkdep
    # make
    # make install

and then try your kernel compile again.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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