Subject: Re: Kernel build failed today
To: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 02/08/2000 11:31:16
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Paul Hoffman wrote:

> After sup'ing last night, 'make depend' works fine, but 'make' ends with:
> 
> >building standard kern library
> >ld: Attempt to do relocateable link with a.out-i386-netbsd input and 
> >elf32-i386 output
> >ld: final link failed: File in wrong format
> >*** Error code 1
> >
> >Stop.
> >*** Error code 1
> >
> >Stop.
> 
> Is this just my system or is this a known problem?

Sounds like it's just your system. Try doing a make clean, then make. 
The error message tends to imply that you still have some a.out files
around when you're trying to make an ELF kernel.

Take care,

Bill