> 
> When I run make (in the SYSTEM directory that I config'd), it runs for a 
> while, but then when it is building the "compat" library, it fails due to 
> an invalid option (-q) to tsort. according to the man page, -q is a valid 
> option, but my copy of tsort doesn't accept it.

Did you do a

make depend; make

???

> What's wierder, I'm SURE that this worked w/out error once. Then, I typed 
> make instead of make depend. I didn't want to wate for it when, so I hit 
> ^C. This happened to be during the making of "compat," and it said 
> "removing <something>.o." Now it always fails when it gets there, as 
> indicated above.

I'd try a:

make clean; make depend; make

now, and make sure that you have the latest kernel sources available.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
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