Hi Rafal,
I get the exact same message.  It happens on my kernel and on the GENERIC
kernel.  I compiled a kernel before I installed all the userland stuff,
and that went fine.  It's only after doing a full make && make install in
/usr/src that I can't compile my kernel.

Rick

On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Rafal Boni wrote:

> I've run across a kernel build problem with 1.2-very-current on an i386.
> I supped earlier this evening (around midnight EST), and have re-built
> and re-installed all of userland (save manpages and profiled libs).
> 
> Here's what I get when I try and build a kernel:
> 
> cc -x assembler-with-cpp -traditional-cpp -D_LOCORE -I. -I../../../../arch -I../../../.. -nostdinc -DSWAPPAGER -DVNODEPAGER -DDEVPAGER -DEXEC_AOUT -DEXEC_SCRIPT -DI486_CPU -DDUMMY_NOPS -DCOMPAT_12 -DCOMPAT_43 -DFFS -DNFS -DKERNFS -DFIFO -DINET -DMAXUSERS=32 -D_KERNEL  -Di386 -c ../../../../arch/i386/i386/locore.s
> ../../../../arch/i386/i386/locore.s: Assembler messages:
> ../../../../arch/i386/i386/locore.s:419: Error: Relocation error. Absolute 0 assumed.
> 
> Any ideas?  Anyone else see this? (config file at end of message...)
> 
> --rafal
> 
> ----
> Rafal Boni                                                rkboni@concentric.net
> 
> #
> # TF_INSTALL -- installation kernel for old 486
> #
> include "arch/i386/conf/std.i386"
> 
> options		I486_CPU
> options		DUMMY_NOPS	# speed hack; recommended
> 
> maxusers	32		# estimated number of users
> 
> options 	COMPAT_12	# compatibility with NetBSD 1.2,
> options		COMPAT_43	# and 4.3BSD
> 
> file-system	FFS		# UFS
> file-system	NFS		# Network File System client
> file-system	KERNFS		# /kern
> 
> options		FIFO		# FIFOs; RECOMMENDED
> 
> options		INET		# IP + ICMP + TCP + UDP
> 
> config		netbsd	root on wd0a type ffs swap on wd0b
> 
> mainbus0 at root
> isa0 at mainbus0
> 
> npx0	at isa? port 0xf0 irq 13	# math coprocessor
> 
> vt0	at isa? port 0x60 irq 1
> spkr0	at pckbd? port 0x61
> 
> com0	at isa? port 0x3f8 irq 4	# standard PC serial ports
> com1	at isa? port 0x2f8 irq 3
>   
> fdc0	at isa? port 0x3f0 irq 6 drq 2	# standard PC floppy controllers
> fd*	at fdc0 drive ?
> 
> wdc0	at isa? port 0x1f0 irq 14	# ST506, ESDI, and IDE controllers
> wd0	at wdc0 drive 0
> 
> ie0	at isa? port 0x300 iomem 0xd0000 irq 15
> #ie1	at isa? port 0x360 iomem 0xd8000 irq 10
> 
> pseudo-device	loop		1		# network loopback
> pseudo-device	pty		64		# pseudo-terminals
> 

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