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From: kenh@entropic.com (Ken Hornstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [NetBSD] source tree build problems [???]
Date: 22 Nov 1994 16:08:16 -0500
Organization: Entropic Research Lab, Washington, DC.
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In article <3ao48b$lq7@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>,
Colin BRADLEY <fox@cs.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>	The question I have is this: How do I build the system
>	from scratch again? Under 0.9, I seem to recall, I just
>
>		% cd /usr/src
>		% make build 
>
>	but under 1.0 things *just don't go*. A ways in, the make
>	pukes on some compiler errors, and I don't know what to 
>	do to fix things.. 
>
>	One thing I remember (this is all from memory, since I can't
>	cu) is that there was a 'parse error' before __P in signal.h
>	on line 194'. In fact, this parse error showed up also when
>	I tried to rebuild the kernel... ie, both 
>	/usr/src/blah/blah/blah/signal.h AND /usr/include/sys/signal.h
>	showed the same parse error. And there were a number of other
>	errors involving things that were undefined, prototype decl
>	mismatches, and so on.

The only think I can think of is that you might have some extra include files
laying around.  Try blowing away /usr/include and re-installing it all
from the source tree.

--Ken