Subject: Re: Can't build X from xsrc
To: Mark Kirby <mark@coris.org.uk>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/21/2004 08:14:13
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Mark Kirby wrote:

> make: stopped in /usr/xsrc/local/programs/xsystrace
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.

> im running a 1.6zf kernel with 1.6.1 userland on i386.

That's the problem. The build system switches things on (such as
"xsystrace") depending on the parsed output of "uname". "uname -r",
however, reports the version of the running kernel, not of the
userland and compiler, which would be the truly relevant information.

Here's what looks like a neat work-around:

 ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/pkgtools/libkver/DESCR

Frederick