Daniel M. Debertin wrote:
> Excuse me, this is my first BSD kernel build (and will be for awhile,
> given that this one will take probably two days on my IIci with 17M of
> ram). Following the directions, which are a far sight from 'make
> menuconfig;make dep;make' that I'm used to in linux,

personally i don't find it all that difficult to type

config GENERIC;cd ../compile/GENERIC;make depend && make

it probably won't take 2 days, either (although it may seem like it ;-)
hopefully less than 12 hours, in fact....

> I stop short at 
> config QUARK (quark is my box). I'm in /sys/arch/mac68k/conf; here's my
> error message:
> ../../../../conf/files:412: syntax error
> 
> First of all, config must be accessing this file from one directory above,
> because that's the only way that all the ../'s resolve to an actual file.
> Secondly, that's the point in the file where we start to have lines like
> this:
> defpseudo vnd: disk
> defpseudo ccd: disk
> 
> Anyone care to clue me in?

it sounds like /usr/sbin/config is out of sync w/ your kernel source.
what version of netbsd binaries are you using, and what version of the
kernel source do you have?  they need to match b/c we sometimes change the
format of the various config files.

i hope this helps.

later.

colin