Having a problem compiling a customized kernel

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 09:09:38AM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> 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.

I told him off-list that he needs to follow src/Makefile (specifically
told him he needs to do "buildworld") to a tee, every time, and
explained why.

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