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Date:      Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:42:57 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        "Guillaume R." <freebsd2@freesurf.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Kernel compilation problem
Message-ID:  <20041211004257.GD50516@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <29119.134.214.201.98.1102439181.squirrel@jose.freesurf.fr>
References:  <200412061609.55733.peter@wemm.org> <29119.134.214.201.98.1102439181.squirrel@jose.freesurf.fr>

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On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 06:06:21PM +0100, Guillaume R. wrote:
> > On Monday 06 December 2004 05:50 am, freebsd2@freesurf.fr wrote:
> >> Hi all!
> >> I'm very new to FreeBSD (indeed I ran it since one week) and I need to
> >> compile my kernel so that some patches will apply correctly. So I made
> >> all the process I type make depends && make and I've got sth like
> >> this:
> >> ../../../i386/i386/genassym.c:216:error: storage size of BC32SELw0
> >> isn't known
> >> I've got that for all BC32 and furthermore on line 214 for KSPEL :( So
> >> the compilation stops on an error code.
> >> Does anyone got a clue?
> >> Many thx :)
> >
> > It means you're in the wrong directory and as a result, trying to build
> >  an i386 kernel on an amd64 machine with an amd64 compiler.
> >
> > You probably want to do your thing in /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf
> > and /usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/...
> I am in those directories I try again and pay attention to this.
> Do u think it's a bug or sth like that?

You can't be doing this in /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf otherwise you would
never try to compile i386/i386/genassym.c.  Exactly what are the commands
and steps you are taking in trying to build a kernel?



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