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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: compiling kernel
Date: 20 Nov 1995 01:06:03 GMT
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trs@azstarnet.com (Tim  Smith) writes:

>     I copied GENERIC and reconfigured, went through most of the make,
>     and got an error.  So I tried /usr/sbin/config GENERIC and tried to
>     make that.  Same error, during make.  Here is the make output:
> 
> /usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC:{526}# make
> building standard kern library
> lorder: 1: Syntax error: Bad fd number
> ar: no archive members specified
> usage:  ar -d [-Tv] archive file ...

I don't have an idea what this error would mean, but just as a
reminder: the config(8) utility is closely related to the kernel, so
you should consider updating it when using a newer kernel source tree.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)