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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!monu6!mukluk!bryan From: bryan@euler.maths.monash.edu.au (Bryan Seng Hpa) Subject: Compiling new kernel (386BSD) Message-ID: <1992Dec8.035717.14397@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> Sender: news@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Usenet system) Organization: Monash University Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 03:57:17 GMT Lines: 52 Having put up with only 4 pty's and a broken ps and other bugs I tried to compile a new kernel. Yes , I know there are sites where I can get the patched binaries but I want to feel like a real sysadmin on my machine - well lots of people have posted to this group claiming success in building a new kernel Can anyone give me a novices guide to re-compiling the kernel ? There must be others out there wanting to know the answer ? Isn't it a FAQ ? I looked on agate for an answer - no luck. I have extracted the bin etc and src distributions increased swap space to 30Mb -now that was in the FAQ on agate- (btw have 8Mb ram and 486DX/33 cpu) and partitioned the 1/2Gb scsi disk to allow 300Mb for 386bsd. 0/ 1/ tried compiling without the patches just to see if it would work 2/ used the original gcc 3/ copied the GENERICISA config file 4/ did a config,make depend and make I thought the config and make depend were quite fast make barfs with the error: ...... loading 386bsd init_main.o: Undefined symbol _version referenced from text segment **** Error code 1 Stop. Can someone explain how to fix this and other probable error messages that will follow ? (these errors never occur in ones I have noticed) Is the compiler too pedantic ? I seem to recall that somebody else posted for help on this but no reply was posted. I would like to hear directly by email from anyone who knows - you should post your reply too if you feel that it is of general interest Well enough waffle. Thanks for any help. Bryan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bryan Seng Hpa email: bryan@mobius.maths.monash.edu.au Computer Systems Officer voice: +61 3 565 4427 Mathematics Dept, Monash University fax: +61 3 565 4403 Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------