From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 13 8:59:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (CDR27-115.accesscable.net [24.138.27.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C207737B424 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 08:59:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8DFwql21016; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:58:52 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:58:52 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Kent Stewart Cc: Stephen Krauth , vedette@iconnect.co.ke, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.1: Can't compile kernel, even as GENERIC! In-Reply-To: <39BF0303.43E85494@urx.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > > On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Stephen Krauth wrote: > > > > > > > > Hey, I just happened to notice your reply in the freebsd-questions > > > > archive, since you didn't cc me. I don't subscribe to the list. > > > > > > > > Anyway... > > > > > > > > > Why are you recompiling the kernel? Is it after a cvsup? I assume you were > > > > > going -STABLE. If that is so then /usr/src/UPDATING says that you have to > > > > > cd /usr/src > > > > > make buildworld > > > > > > > > I was recompiling with a customed copy of the GENERIC file (named > > > > something else), but when it failed I tried the original GENERIC for > > > > comparison. It fails also, thus my message. > > > > > > > > And no, I haven't cvsup'ed at all - this is after an install of 4.1 from > > > > the cd, or over ftp (can't remember which at the moment). Since then I've > > > > only installed packages and ports... > > > > > > > > Anyway, I'm trying make buildworld at the moment just to see. It > > > > shouldn't be necessary on a virgin system, but what else can I try? > > > > > > If you haven't done a cvsup, you probably should be doing a config and > > > make depend. The build[install]kernel depends on code in /usr/obj that > > > the buildworld creates. > > > > I've been building both -CURRENT and -STABLE since as far back as I can > > remember, and this is the first time that a problem has persisted this > > long ... right now, on my one machine that is current to Aug 15th > > (4.1-STABLE), I've done a full 'make buildworld', a complete 'make > > buildkernel', and am trying to do a 'make installkernel', but its failing > > to be able to install mk: > > I don't have any idea what is happening to you. It is almost like you > have some source out of date and your system isn't being updated > because make thinks your old stuff is more recent. > > I just cvsup'ed two systems (RELENG_4 % src-all) this afternoon and > the buildworld, build[install]kernel KERNEL=OPAL&JADE, and > installworld worked just fine. Warner has a [1] indicating you may not ya, it was the order here that I was screwing up :( first time since I started using build[install]kernel that I've been hit by it :( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message