Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:37:25 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: error making new kernel Message-ID: <20030205133725.GG26955@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <bulk.47325.20030205050000@hub.freebsd.org> References: <bulk.47325.20030205050000@hub.freebsd.org>
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> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 14:54:22 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen > <will@unfoldings.net> Subject: Re: error making new kernel > > On Wednesday 05 February 2003 14:35, Erik Paulsen Sk=E5lerud > wrote: > > > This is a pretty frequent question that I see alot of on the > > lists and in different FreeBSD-channels on IRC. > > Perhaps someone should implent some kind of kernel-config > > checker that sees over the config and tells the user if > > something important is missing (like scsbus and da if you're > > going to use umass). I am sure that there are several other > > things it could check aswell. > > I'd love to make one myself, the only problem is that I don't know > > enough about shell-scripting to do this. > That shouldn't really be needed. If people took the time to > read the comments in the GENERIC and LINT files, they would > never get dependancy problems :) And his GENERIC differs from the GENERIC I have. The scbus IS defined in GENERIC. I'm suspecting that the person who posted this originally modified GENERIC but did not say so. I always make sure my GENERIC is always untouched because I've never had a problem compiling an untouched GENERIC. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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