Re: config / NOTES "profile 2" and main -> stable/13 fails universe for me?

On Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 8:15 PM Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 2:01 PM Bjoern A. Zeeb
> <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am building on a stable/13 machine (updated a few days ago but I had
> > that before in the last months).
> >
> > I have git clone and am mostly working on main or main-derived
> > branches.
> >
> > Once in a while I switch in-place (not a worktree) to a stable branch,
> > e.g., git checkout stable/13 based on freebsd/stable/13 for MFCs.
> >
> > When I do that and start to build an amd64-only universe my kernel
> > builds immediately fail with a dubious error message from a top-level
> > Makefile:
> >
> > # nice make -s -j30 tinderbox TARGETS=amd64 [..]
> >
> > make[2]: ".../freebsd-src/Makefile" line 731: "Target architecture for
> amd64/conf/LINT unknown.  config(8) likely too old."
> >
> > I tracked it down to the profile 2 line sys/amd64/conf/NOTES which makes
> > config fail apparently.
> >
> > When I apply the below change things work flawlessly.
> >
> > I do not fully understand where the problem comes from, but given I
> > haven't seen other reports I wonder what it is that I am doing that
> > makes things go wrong here?
> >
> > Anyone an idea?
> >
>
> Whoops, we ripped 'profile' support out of config(8) so now it can't
> config older kernels. I think the cheapest/easiest fix would be to
> just re-add the keyword as a nop so we can still parse it, maybe emit
> a warning that it's been removed in newer config(8).
>

Yea. It would be trivial to do so. But what about the version issue?

Warner

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