Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 12:20:25 +0800 (SGT) From: sweeting@tm.net.my To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TIMEZONE and DST .... making the kernel (was Re: 2.2-GAMMA.) Message-ID: <v01540b1caf4466366a3f@[111.111.111.110]>
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Doug, thank you again for your help - do you ever sleep ? >> >> Aside from a large number of warnings about type mismatches >>(comparing signed >> >> to unsigned values), it finally dies compiling param.c noting that >> >>TIMEZONE and >> >> DST aren't defined. > >Hm, I don't have a TIMEZONE or DST in param.c. Are you sure you grabbed >the right source? i thought so : all the ssys.* files from src directory of 2.1.7-RELEASE but ...... >You may have sucked in ssys.inf too, or when you reconstituted the tar.gz, >one of the archives was out of order. you are correct, i had ssys.inf too !!! i will go back and get everything except ssys.inf this time. >Use this command: > >cat ssys.* | tar xzf - > >Cat will process them in the proper order. cheers, i tried that first time and was told it wasn't a tar file so i made one big tarball first. >> i customised the GENERIC config file and tried to make it.... >> still the DST and TIMEZONE errors occured and sure enough, looking in param.c >> the DST and TIMEZONE variables do seem to be used before assigned values >> but then again, i'm not a coder ...... > >Have you tried just building GENERIC? will do if it doesn't work without ssys.inf this time. >> >IT's the ssys distribution, and just look over GENERIC for anything >> >important. All the opts are in LINT. >> >> did i perhaps make a boo boo in the config file ???? > >Maybe. Can I see it? i won't trouble you with that - gonna go try without the ssys.inf file first. thank you again for your great help chas
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