buildkernel error

[mmatsuda at cybernet.co.jp]

From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:25:32 +0200
::On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 02:24:05PM +0900, mmatsuda at cybernet.co.jp wrote:
::> From: Garrett Cooper <gcooper at FreeBSD.org>
::> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:04:24 -0800
::> ::On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:54 PM,  <mmatsuda at cybernet.co.jp> wrote:
::> ::> From: Dimitry Andric <dim at FreeBSD.org>
::> ::> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:39:31 +0100
::> ::> ::On 2011-02-22 08:30, gnehzuil wrote:
::> ::> ::> I updated my kernel source code and try to make a new kernel using make
::> ::> ::> buildkernel command. But I got an error as follow:
::> ::> ::...
::> ::> ::> ld:/usr/src/sys/conf/ldscript.i386:66: syntax error
::> ::> ::
::> ::> ::Your /usr/bin/ld is still at version 2.15, which is too old to parse the
::> ::> ::kernel linker script.  In this case, first run "make buildworld", or at
::> ::> ::least "make kernel-toolchain" before you attempt to build any kernels.
::> ::>
::> ::> Hello,
::> ::>
::> ::> Does it mean we have no-way of source upgrading from 8.X?
::> ::> We need newest world to build 9.x kernel, and need 9.x kernel to run
::> ::> newest world, and...
::> ::
::> ::    No; you have to do something like the following:
::> ::
::> ::[kernel-]toolchain buildworld buildkernel.
::> ::
::> ::    A plus side of doing this is that I do kernel-toolchain at -j12
::> ::and then do buildworld buildkernel at -j12 as well. It's much quicker
::> ::than buildworld buildkernel at -j1, and less error prone than doing it
::> ::at any other -j value in parallel.
::> ::    The handbook just says buildworld buildkernel (
::> ::http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html ), and UPDATING
::> ::just says kernel-toolchain buildkernel installkernel (look for "To
::> ::build a kernel"), but there aren't any official directions in the
::> ::quick to find spots that mention those above steps.
::> 
::> Ahh, thanks for pointers.
::> I was just reading the "To upgrade in-place from 8.x-stable to current"
::> from UPDATING, which does not say anything about [kernel-]toolchain.
::> May by that part, and some others, also needs updating.
::You do not need to do anything with kernel-toolchain. THe proper
::procedure of buildworld/buildkernel just works.

OK. Thanks for the confirmation.

Haro