On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

# Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 14:53:44 -0700
# From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
# To: Matt Bell <mtbell@micropede.com>
# Cc: current-users@netbsd.org
# Subject: Re: current kernel build failure
#
# On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 04:54:28PM -0400, Matt Bell wrote:
#
#  > Im trying to build a kernel with today's source and July 25th's userland
#  > and get this error:
#
# Make sure you have updated your gas(1) first.

Be careful updating your gas(1); immediately after I updated my gas, I
got things like:

{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:87: Error: Unknown pseudo-op:  `.zero'
{standard input}:1786: Error: Illegal .size expression
{standard input}:1787: Error: Unknown pseudo-op:  `.section'
{standard input}:3786: Error: Illegal .size expression
{standard input}:3787: Error: Unknown pseudo-op:  `.section'
{standard input}:4864: Error: Illegal .size expression
{standard input}:4865: Error: Unknown pseudo-op:  `.local'
{standard input}:5091: Error: Illegal .size expression
{standard input}:5194: Error: Unknown pseudo-op:  `.local'
{standard input}:5532: Error: Illegal .size expression
{standard input}:5533: Error: Unknown pseudo-op:  `.section'
{standard input}:5534: Error: Rest of line ignored. First ignored character is `,'.
{standard input}:5535: Error: Alignment too large: 15. assumed.
{standard input}:5842: Error: Unknown pseudo-op:  `.section'
{standard input}:5927: Error: Illegal .size expression
{standard input}:5928: Error: Unknown pseudo-op:  `.section'

I had to back out and reinstall from comp.tgz from the latest snapshot.

#         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
#


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