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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!root From: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@apl.washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Current requires make world? Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 21:40:59 -0800 Organization: University of Washington Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3276EA6B.41C67EA6@apl.washington.edu> References: <556bu4$77m@uuneo.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-C13.apl.washington.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP i386) Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > OK, I recently (very recently, in fact) "supped" the CURRENT sources > (everything!). Now, I'm getting strange and wonderful *new* errors when I > try to do a kernel build. > > config MYKERNEL says "Unknown % construct in generic makefile: %SFILES". > > Then trying to do a make on the generated files produces: > > "Makefile", line 328: Could not find bsd.kern.mk > Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue > > Is this related to having recently updated my sources? Do I need to make > world before I can even think about rebuilding a kernel? > -- > Conrad Sabatier | > conrads@neosoft.com | Eschew obfuscation. > http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads | You probably need to build config before you try to build a new kernel. A "make world" will of course to this. You'll also probably want to merge files in /etc by hand (particularly sysconfig). -- Steve finger -l kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/sgk.html