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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: compiling 2.2-current
Date: 7 Jun 1996 17:02:46 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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In article <4p7dcj$afk@newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu>,
Chitra Venkatramani <chitra@cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:
>
>
>Hi,
> I have an Intel EtherExpress 100Mbps Ethernet card which is supported in 
>FreeBSD v2.2. We have 
>FreeBSD 2.1.0 running on the machines in our lab...I ftp'ed the sources 
>for FreeBSD-current and config'ed the GENERIC file in sys/i386/conf.
>config gave the following errors --

The problem is that the syntax of the config file has changed and the
-release version of config doesn't understand it, so it won't create
the correct files for the kernel build. (In any case, you'd still be
using the -release kernel include files, which are probably not going
to work).

AFAIK, the only recommended way is to remove /usr/src, put the
-current source in there, and do 'make world' followed by rebuilding
the kernel. (Warning: even with a Pentium, 'make world' will take 4-5
hours).
-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland | http://freefall.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk         | jraynard@freebsd.org