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From: ockers@vangogh.wic.net (Jim Ockers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: can't compile BSDI kernel without libkern.a!
Date: 12 Oct 1996 17:12:50 GMT
Organization: HTP Net, Inc. 516-757-2599
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Message-ID: <53ojii$eee@news.htp.net>
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Hi all,
I inherited an admin nightmare: a BSDI 2.0.0 system that was installed by
someone who doesn't know much about unix, and which I can't reinstall
everything on because it is a production system and can't be taken down.
I am attempting to recompile the kernel to fix some of the problems that
BSDI has addressed in the K200-* series of patches. Unfortunately, the
compile fails because there is no libkern.a . (See typescript output
attached after my sig.) The file I need is /sys/libkern/obj/libkern.a .
I can't make libkern.a because apparently these guys don't have a source
license; I can't find that file anywhere on the CD nor are the source files
(listed in the libkern Makefile) found anywhere on disk or on the CD.
Can anyone PLEASE help me to understand a) where do I get libkern.a or
b) where do I get the source files, including adddi3.c, to make libkern.a
myself? I have done admin work on other unixes but this is my first BSDI
job and there are some things I may not understand about this.. I'm attemp-
ting to follow the instructions in the book, which seem to make sense, but
they do not work given the absence of libkern.a .
--
Jim (ockers@davidalan.com) Ask me about Linux!
My own site! Check out http://ducktape.davidalan.com/
Contact info: finger info@ockers.org
Script started on Sat Oct 12 11:02:28 1996
[1] vangogh.wic.net:/ockers > cd /sys/i386/conf
[2] vangogh.wic.net:/usr/src/sys/i386/conf > cp GENERIC LOCAL
overwrite LOCAL? y
[3] vangogh.wic.net:/usr/src/sys/i386/conf > config LOCAL
Don't forget to run "make depend"
[4] vangogh.wic.net:/usr/src/sys/i386/conf > make depend
make: don't know how to make depend. Stop
[5] vangogh.wic.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/LOCAL > cd /sys/libkern
[6] vangogh.wic.net:/usr/src/sys/libkern > make obj
/usr/src/sys/libkern -> /usr/obj/sys/libkern
[7] vangogh.wic.net:/usr/src/sys/libkern > make depend
make: don't know how to make adddi3.c. Stop
[8] vangogh.wic.net:/usr/src/sys/libkern > cd /sys/compile/LOCAL
[9] vangogh.wic.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/LOCAL > make clean
rm -f eddep *bsd bsd.gdb genassym *.o [a-z]*.s Errs errs linterrs makelinks
[10] vangogh.wic.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/LOCAL > make depend
[5 successful make-depend lines deleted]
[11] vangogh.wic.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/LOCAL > make
[LOTS of successful compile stuff deleted]
ln -s ../../libkern/obj/libkern.a libkern.a
*** ../../libkern/obj/libkern.a must be built before kernel
do:
cd ../../libkern
make depend
make
*** Error code 1
Stop.
[10] vangogh.wic.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/LOCAL > exit
Script done on Sat Oct 12 11:06:41 1996