From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 6 06:47:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA21304 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 06:47:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.tm.net.my (janeway.tm.net.my [202.188.0.155]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA21068 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 06:42:18 -0800 (PST) From: sweeting@tm.net.my Received: from [111.111.111.110] ([202.184.153.200]) by mail.tm.net.my (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP id WAA17496; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 22:37:56 +0800 (SGT) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 22:37:56 +0800 (SGT) X-Sender: sweeting@mail.tm.net.my Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Doug White Subject: Re: TIMEZONE and DST .... making the kernel (was Re: 2.2-GAMMA.) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug, >> >> 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? 2.1.7-RELEASE/src/ssys.* and no ssys.inf this time. >Use this command: > >cat ssys.* | tar xzf - this worked perfectly. >Have you tried just building GENERIC? yes, and i got the same errors. so i figure it is not due to my config file. could it be due to using the 2.1.7 source but having 2.1.6 installed at present ? (i was hoping to use this as a method to upgrade since i/o is poor and do not want to reinstall.... but in any case, i need to reconfigure the kernel.) cheers chas >> did i perhaps make a boo boo in the config file ???? > >Maybe. Can I see it? since GENRIC doesn't work, figure it is not the config file. has anyone managed to reconfigure the kernel for 2.1.7 ? (i am using 486 sx /33 if it helps)