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From: rgrimes@agora.rain.com (Rodney Grimes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Problem with mkdep when recompiling kernel after patch upgrade
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Date: 29 Mar 93 11:43:23 GMT
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ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu (Daniel Ortmann) writes:

>ken@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Ken Ivey) writes:
>)I've just finished installing the UPGRADE from patchkit v0.2.1 to
>)0.2.2.  My problem occurs when trying to recompile the kernel.
>)Following the instructions in the upgrade doc, I did the following:
>)
>)  rm -r /sys/compile/*
>)  cd /sys/i386/conf
>)  config KENSKERNEL
>)  cd /sys/comile/KENSKERNEL
>)  make depend
>)
>)At this point things hang.  It seems to hang on the mkdep command.
>)Any ideas.

>Have you rebuilt config and make before redoing the kernel?

>That might solve your problem.

I went over and helped Ken find this problem, some had installed GCC2.3.3
and then deinstalled it.  The shell script /usr/bin/cpp was still the
GCC2.3.3 version and it caused probelms (It was trying to read from
stdin).

>-- 
>Daniel Ortmann             NDSU Electrical Engineering
>ortmann@plains.nodak.edu   Fargo, North Dakota
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