FBSD 5-CURRENT: Kernel Makefile.inc1 Error

Garance A Drosihn drosih at rpi.edu
Sat Dec 6 00:31:25 PST 2003


At 1:45 AM -0600 12/6/03, William M. Grim wrote:
>Hey there!  I'm having a slight problem performing a build
>on my FreeBSD 5.1 machine.  I downloaded the 5-CURRENT
>source code and only added the line, "device pcm" to
>the GENERIC kernel, renaming it to ZEUS.
>
>Then, I went into /usr/src and typed
>       "make buildkernel KERNCONF=ZEUS",
>and it immediately came up with the errors [...]

 From the above description, it sounds like you are running
on a 5.1 system, and you are trying to compile a 5.2 kernel.
Is this true?

If the system you are on is 5.1, then you are going to have
to do a 'make buildworld' of the 5.2-source before you can
do a 'make buildkernel' of a 5.2 kernel.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu


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