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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Kernel config bug?
Date: 7 Jun 94 16:32:52 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <STARK!GENE.94Jun6105850@stark.uucp> stark!gene@newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) writes:

>>I said config CONFGIFILE; cd /sys/compile/CONFIGFILE; make depend; make
>>as usual but the kernel wasn't recompiled correctly. Not all files

>When having problems of this nature, it is generally a good idea to
>remove the entire /sys/compile/CONFIGFILE directory and reconfig and compile
>everything.

I find simply doing "make clean" before doing your make depend and
make is usually all that's required.  If you got *any* new kernel
files or headers in a sup, you should make clean in the kernel build
dir, remake config, *then* go and make your new kernel.

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 Michael L. VanLoon                 Iowa State University Computation Center
    michaelv@iastate.edu                    Project Vincent Systems Staff
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