Having a problem compiling a customized kernel

[Dimitry Andric]

On 2013-02-19 04:48, Kurt Buff wrote:
> I'm working on troubleshooting a random network dropout in an older
> Acer Aspire One, and am compiling an otherwise generic kernel with the
> following options:
...
> linking kernel.debug
> ld:/usr/src/sys/conf/ldscript.i386:66: syntax error
> *** [kernel.debug] Error code 1
...
> I'm currently running 9.1-RELEASE - I had to svn the source, as I had
> used freebsd-update last couple of weeks to move from 7.2 to 8.0 to
> 8.3 to 9.0 to 9.1.

Please run "make kernel-toolchain" first, as your binutils is too old.