Problems compiling new kernel

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:20:51AM -0800, Mark Stout wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I recently upgraded to 6.2 -RELEASE from 5.4-RELEASE.  When compiling a
> custom kernel I get the following error message.  I have two concerns.  I
> need to run a program from iPass built for Linux on this machine so the
> WARNING about the ext2fs filesystem being contaminated concerns me as does
> the reason the buildkernel command fails.

You don't need to use ext2fs to run Linux binaries.  Even if you do
need ext2fs, do you really care about the license?

> --------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> stage 2.1: cleaning up the object tree
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> cd /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RADIUS2;  MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj
> MACHINE_ARCH=i386  MACHINE=i386  CPUTYPE=
> GROFF_BIN_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/bin
> GROFF_FONT_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/share/groff_font
> GROFF_TMAC_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/share/tmac
> _SHLIBDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp  INSTALL="sh /usr/src/tools/install.sh"
> PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/sbin:/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/bi
> n:/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/games:/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/sbin:/usr/o
> bj/usr/src/tmp/usr/bin:/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/games:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/
> usr/bin make KERNEL=kernel cleandir
> Unknown modifier 'C'

I am wondering whether you upgraded your system correctly - in
particular make might give this error if you were still running an old
5.x make.  How did you do the upgrade?

Kris
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