Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 18:00:37 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: sweeting@tm.net.my Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TIMEZONE and DST .... making the kernel (was Re: 2.2-GAMMA.) Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970305175512.26927Q-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <v01540b18af442b7c997c@[111.111.111.110]>
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On Thu, 6 Mar 1997 sweeting@tm.net.my wrote: > > >> Aside from a large number of warnings about type mismatches (comparing signed > >> to unsigned values), it finally dies compiling param.c noting that > >>TIMEZONE and > >> DST aren't defined. Hm, I don't have a TIMEZONE or DST in param.c. Are you sure you grabbed the right source? > > > >Try removing /usr/src/sys and reinstalling it. Leftover garbage will > >confuse things sometimes. > > ok, i removed /usr/src/sys and got hold of the ssys.* files again. > when the whatever.tar.gz (created from the ssys.* files) is decompressed, it > says that the garbage is ignored. You may have sucked in ssys.inf too, or when you reconstituted the tar.gz, one of the archives was out of order. Use this command: cat ssys.* | tar xzf - Cat will process them in the proper order. > i customised the GENERIC config file and tried to make it.... > still the DST and TIMEZONE errors occured and sure enough, looking in param.c > the DST and TIMEZONE variables do seem to be used before assigned values > but then again, i'm not a coder ...... Have you tried just building GENERIC? > >IT's the ssys distribution, and just look over GENERIC for anything > >important. All the opts are in LINT. > > did i perhaps make a boo boo in the config file ???? Maybe. Can I see it? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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