Subject: Re: can't build current - gcc fails
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net>
List: current-users
Date: 04/29/2004 13:11:51
* Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk> [0458 12:58]:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 12:26:56PM +0100, Dick Davies wrote:
> > * Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk> [0423 12:23]:
> > > On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 11:38:29AM +0100, Dick Davies wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I'm about to try bumping a 1.6 box to current. I'ts the first
> > > > build I've applied to it since September, so I thought I'd try 
> > > > a test build from the same sources on my laptop first.
> > > > 
> > > > The kernel built fine - there are some sysctl errors during
> > > > boot, but I expected those and there's nothing too terminal - 
> 
> Maybe it is (!) uname uses sysctl, and is missing the machine type.
> It should contain info from:
> 
> sysctl kern.ostype
> sysctl kern.hostname
> sysctl kern.osrelease
> sysctl kern.version
> sysctl hw.machine

That makes sense - they're all hosed....
 
How do I fix this then?

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