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From: dmp3592@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com (Dean M. Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Problems building new 386bsd kernel
Message-ID: <1066@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com>
Date: 17 Aug 92 14:51:57 GMT
References: <24886@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, Seattle
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In article <24886@castle.ed.ac.uk> mfg@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Gordon) writes:
>Another problem appears in the kernel building itself - I get an
>undefined symbol error for version.  I got around this by adding a
>declaration
>
>	char *version="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
>
>This works, but surely config should generate this by itself.  To

I had the same problem myself.  It is caused by Makefile.i386 missing
some info.  Unfortunately, the fixes are at home.  I found the problem
by: cp GENERICISA FLAKEY;config FLAKEY;cd /sys/compile
diff GENERICISA/Makefile FLAKEY/Makefile

Examine the diff's and edit Makefile.i386 as appropriate.
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Dean M. Phillips                                        (206) 393-9333
Boeing Commercial Airplane Group            dmp3592@galileo.boeing.com