kernel build failed

[Doug Barton]

E. O. wrote:

> # IMPORTANT: Change the next line to use one of the CVSup mirror sites
> # listed at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mirrors.html.
> *default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org <http://cvsup.freebsd.org/>

I don't think that's going to work properly for you. Try going to
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/cvsup.html#HANDBOOK-MIRRORS-CHAPTER-SGML-MIRRORS-PRIMARY-CVSUP
and picking a hostname from that list. You are going to want something
that looks like this:

*default host=cvsup1.FreeBSD.org

> *default base=/var/db
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8_0

Are you intending to download exactly the sources for 8.0-RELEASE? If
you want to have 8.0-STABLE you should use this instead:

*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8

> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> 
> src-all
> 
> 
> 
> source update

How are you doing that exactly?

> and
> 
> cd /usr/src
> 
> make cleandir && make cleandir && rm -rf /usr/obj
> 
> make buildkernel

FreeBSD is not like Linux in the sense that you don't just want to
update the kernel independently of the rest of the base system. You
want to update the whole thing. Try this instead:

make buildworld &&
make buildkernel

You should also read
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
to get a better idea of the overall process.


hope this helps,

Doug

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