Problems compiling new kernel

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu May 3 18:13:35 UTC 2007


On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:02:37AM -0800, Mark Stout wrote:
> If I don't need the options ext2fs I'll take it out.  I upgraded using
> sysinstall over FTP.

Please don't top-post, it loses context from the discussion.

What does "ls -l /usr/bin/make" show you?

Kris

> 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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