From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 22 07:30:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA17249 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 07:30:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA17214 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 07:30:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id HAA24009; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 07:29:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 07:29:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Ian Vaudrey cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: ../../sys/cdefs.h: Bad address In-Reply-To: <199704220602.HAA01407@mail.nemko.ltd.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Ian Vaudrey wrote: > I should've mentioned that this is on 2.2.1-RELEASE. Also, I've > attached my kernel config file - as I said, this is just the GENERIC > file with the devices I don't need commented out. > > The box spec is 486DX2/80, Adaptec 1542 with 1 hard drive and 1 CDROM, > 3Com 3C509 NIC. It looks OK so far, so I'd say that your kernel source may be corrupted. Try reinstalling it. > > cc -c -O -Wreturn-type -Wcomment -Wredundant-decls > > -Wimplicit -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes > > -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -nostdinc -I- > > -I. -I. ./.. -I/usr/include -DAPM_BROKEN_STATCLOCK > > -DFAILSAFE -DCOMPAT_43 -DCD9660 -DFFS -DINET -DKERNEL > > ../../kern/kern_descrip.c > > cpp: ../../sys/cdefs.h: Bad address > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop. > > > > The custom kernel is simply the GENERIC file with all devices that do > > not exist on my system commented out. It's barfing on the file and not it's contents. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major