Re: building a kernel "the old way"

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Christian Groessler <chris%groessler.org@localhost> wrote:
>On 05/24/17 18:55, Martin Husemann wrote:
>> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 04:59:58PM +0200, Christian Groessler wrote:
>>> making sure the compat library is up to date... make[1]: cannot open 
>>> ../../../../../../compat/common/Makefile. 
>> Do you have a full source tree? Why is it not finding that file 
>> relative to your compile dir?
>
>I should have a complete source tree. 'build.sh', at least, was able to 
>build the whole system without errors.
>
>The file is there, but in ../../../../compat/common(so two ".."s less).
>
>Like I've written,
>
> > It says, "make[1]: stopped in 
>/usr/obj/local/netbsd-src/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/GENERIC/lib/compat", 
>but there is no "lib/compat" directory there.
>
>"make" thinks it's in the lib/compat dir, but there is no such dir....
>
>If you guys/gals run "config"/"nbconfig", do you have a lib/compat dir 
>in the compile dir?

The lib/compat directory is created by "make depend".

I would delete your src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/GENERIC directory and
start again.