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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: compiling 2.2-current
Date: 7 Jun 1996 13:28:10 +0100
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Chitra Venkatramani (chitra@cs.sunysb.edu) wrote:


: Hi,
:  I have an Intel EtherExpress 100Mbps Ethernet card which is supported in 
: FreeBSD v2.2. We have 
: FreeBSD 2.1.0 running on the machines in our lab...I ftp'ed the sources 
: for FreeBSD-current and config'ed the GENERIC file in sys/i386/conf.

Don't do that, copy it to another name and change that.  Your machine
name in capitals is a good choice.

: config gave the following errors --

: config: line 99: syntax error
: config: line 109: syntax error
: config: line 116: syntax error
: Unknown % construct in generic makefile: %SFILES

If config gives errors, fix them before trying to make the kernel.
What's on lines 99, 109 & 116 ?

: Then, when I did a make depend in the compile/GENERIC directory, I 
: got errors that ioconf.c was not found ---

: In file included from ../../sys/conf.h:224,
:                  from ../../isofs/cd9660/cd9660_util.c:51:
: ./machine/conf.h:6: ioconf.h: No such file or directory
: In file included from ../../sys/conf.h:224,
:                  from ../../isofs/cd9660/cd9660_vnops.c:51:
: ./machine/conf.h:6: ioconf.h: No such file or directory
: ../../kern/init_main.c:45: opt_rlimit.h: No such file or directory
: and on and on...

Sounds like config didn't work....


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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....