Kernel compilation problem

[Guillaume R.]

> On Monday 06 December 2004 05:50 am, freebsd2 at freesurf.fr wrote:
>> Hi all!
>> I'm very new to FreeBSD (indeed I ran it since one week) and I need to
>> compile my kernel so that some patches will apply correctly. So I made
>> all the process I type make depends && make and I've got sth like
>> this:
>> ../../../i386/i386/genassym.c:216:error: storage size of BC32SELw0
>> isn't known
>> I've got that for all BC32 and furthermore on line 214 for KSPEL :( So
>> the compilation stops on an error code.
>> Does anyone got a clue?
>> Many thx :)
>
> It means you're in the wrong directory and as a result, trying to build
>  an i386 kernel on an amd64 machine with an amd64 compiler.
>
> You probably want to do your thing in /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf
> and /usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/...
I am in those directories I try again and pay attention to this.
Do u think it's a bug or sth like that?
I don't understand this error :s
Thx if u could help
>
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