Dave Baxter wrote:
In article <[email protected]>, rgilbert88
@comcast.net says...
G8KBV wrote:
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
On Apr 13, 2010, at 1:40 PM, G8KBV wrote:
When I 'make buildkernel KENRCONF=PPSGENERIC'
Nowt happens, except a short error message to the effect that it doesnt
know how to build the kernel.
Err, what!????
That should be KERNCONF, not KENRCONF. Of course, you should provide the exact
error message, rather than an interpretation of it.
Anyone here know what went wrong, or do I go looking for a newbie
friendly f'bsd group (not found one of those yet.)
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Regards,
Chuck:
Typo on my part. In the posting AFIK.
I tried it a few times, though not to say I didn't type it wrong each
time. It's late now and that machine is currently off, so will have to
wait till much later, like late tomorrow.
I can't copy/paste from the FreeBSD machine to this one, and I have no
idea how to copy paste from the command line/terminal screen, to a
floppy (or anything else!) but the error was very short, but almost
literaly "dont know how to build PPSGENERIC" No other details were
shown.
Michael:
As to 'cd /usr/src' before issuing the make command, yes, of course I
did that, but you are right to to ask.
Nite nite.
Dave B
The error message suggests, to me, that there is something wrong with
your make file. The other possibility is that you have misspelled the
name of the file.
Remember that the computer is absolutely literal; it will do, or attempt
to do exactly what you told it to do. This will not necessarily be what
you meant!
"Managing Projects with make" is an excellent book available from
I didnt make the make file. Or is that the problem? I'm only
following instructions after all.
And yes. "Computers only do exactly what you tell them to do, not what
you meant them to do!" I know that only too well.
I'm not a computer novice, far from it. I'm only a noob in respect to
FreeBSD.
Dave B.
Different O/S's have different little quirks. And, face it, every brand
of "Unix" has its own.
I think we would need a great deal more information in order to pinpoint
the problem! If you made it work, congratulations. If you still need
help, you know where to find us.
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