What port are you running, i386?  Why does the build fail?
What are the exact error messages?

I've never had any problems with "make build" (I'm on i386,
alpha and sparc).

If you have a "/etc/mk.conf", try changing it's name so that it
doesn't get used.


Cheers,
Andreas


On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 08:32:21PM -0500, sucho2 wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was never successful in compiling netbsd from source.
> I've downloaded all the files in /usr/src and to build it
> I did:
>
> make build
>
> This of course fails to build everytime ending with
> errors.
>
>
> So, I did the second one:
>
> sh build.sh
>
> This goes alot further but eventually ends with errors!
> Anybody successful at building netbsd from source?
>
> At first I thought it was my optimizations causing these
> compilation problems.  So, I'm not using any optimizations
> yet it fails to build.  I don't think I ever had such
> difficulty in building from source for freebsd.
>
> Any tips on building netbsd from source?
>
>
> Regards, Sung N. Cho, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2002.

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Andreas Kahari, Dunedin, New Zealand
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