From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Apr 19 00:53:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA07219 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 00:53:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA07213 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 00:53:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA07550; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 17:50:24 +1000 Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 17:50:24 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199604190750.RAA07550@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: am@f1.ru, scrappy@ki.net Subject: Re: kern/1149: sys/conf/params.c outdated in stable Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> > I've just supped freebsd-stable kernel sources and found, that >> > sys/conf/params.c file dated 23-Aug-1995 (and btw uses old >> > TIMEZONE and DST definitions). Kernel cannot be compiled with such >> > params.c code.. >> >> I'm using -stable, with the same param.c file, on two of my >> machines, with no such problems. What is your error message? >Undefined symbols TIMEZONE and DST. Look into current tree for >example of new code I mean.. >It's not a hard job to fix params.c from current, but I want to know >reason of such thing to be sure of `stable' stability.. This sort of thing is always because of version mismatches. In this case, TIMEZONE and DST are generated by the 2.1 /usr/sbin/config but not by the -current /usr/sbin/config. Bruce