Having a problem compiling a customized kernel

[Kurt Buff]

I have done a buildworld and a buildkernel, and the latter finished
just fine, so now to see if I can diagnose the problem.

Thanks for the help...

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Jeremy Chadwick <jdc at koitsu.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> | Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc at koitsu.org |
> | UNIX Systems Administrator                http://jdc.koitsu.org/ |
> | Mountain View, CA, US                                            |
> | Making life hard for others since 1977.             PGP 4BD6C0CB |