Subject: Re: kernel build problems
To: None <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
From: Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/23/1996 13:33:04
>Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com (michaelv@HeadCandy.com) wrote:
>: 
>: I have been running just fine on a kernel and world built with a sup
>: from the evening of 1/27/96.  I just supped again this afternoon, and
>: my kernel make depend fails with these errors:

>: mkdep -x assembler-with-cpp -D_LOCORE -I. -I../../../../arch -I../../../.. -DI486_CPU -DI586_CPU -DMINDBENDER -DTIMEZONE="0x1e0" -DDST="1" -DMACHINE_NONCONTIG -DCOMPAT_09 -DCOMPAT_10 -DCOMPAT_43 -DTCP_COMPAT_42 -DCOMPAT_NOMID -DSWAPPAGER -DVNODEPAGER -D
>: .../../i386/locore.s:148: unterminated character constant

You need to re-run config(8).  The behavior you see results from a bug
(since fixed) in Makefile.i386.  The fix is to pass an additional
'--traditional-cpp' flag to mkdep; K&R cpp doesn't try to parse
quotes.
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