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Date:      Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:13:03 +0530
From:      Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com>
To:        Jose Borquez <calartstech@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can't compile kernel
Message-ID:  <43841D87.4060401@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051123072044.7228.qmail@web54708.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20051123072044.7228.qmail@web54708.mail.yahoo.com>

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Jose Borquez sat at his 'puter and typed on 11/23/2005 12:50:
>  I made a standard install of FreeBSD 5.4  with Kern-Developer  Full binaries and doc, kernel source  only.  I attempted to compile a custom kernel running:
>   make buildkernel KERNCONF=CUSTOM  Then I get the following error: make: don't know how to make buildkernel. Stop
>   I run it from the /usr/src/ directory.  The /usr/src/ directory is  empty.  Does that mean the source files were not installed?
>   

Exactly. The kernel sources had not been installed. Read the chapter on
building a custom kernel in the handbook. make sure you cvsup properly
before you attempt to go for the compile.

Regards
S.

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