Subject: building kernels on -current
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/21/2002 17:41:46
I suppose I let myself in for it...
I'd been happily running 1.5Y. At some point, I must have done a cvs
update on the kernel, which left me with a kernel that wouldn't build.
I've seen lots of discussion of the "new tool chain" -- having also
seen lots of comments to the effect that it's better to install a
snapshot than to build the whole system from scratch, I downloaded the
1.5ZA snapshot, installed it by hand (grumble -- via another download;
I still don't grok the spell for installing from a previously-snarfed
set of tarballs, and it was by hand since xbase.tgz didn't exist), did
a 'cvs update' of the source, and tried again to build a kernel:
When I ran 'make depend', I got this:
/usr/src/tools/obj.i386/tools.NetBSD-1.5ZA-i386/bin/nbmkdep: not found
Suggestiosn gratefully appreciated. (I've been building BSD kernels
for (literally) decades -- I've never seen this one.)
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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