Re: building new version of config

["rvargh jo" <rvargh1%gmail.com@localhost>]

Thanks for the reply.

I feel i could resolve  the problem.

I downloaded the usr.bin.tar.gz and did make depend install and found
that the new config was installed in /usr/bin/.

I think there is some problem with config.tar.gz




On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Steven M. Bellovin
<smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:30:27 -0600
> Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 09:01:00AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>> > On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:56:54 +0530
>> > "rvargh jo" <rvargh1%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> > > I downloaded the new  config.tar.gz from
>> > > /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-5_BETA/tar_files/src/
>> > >
>> > > But when I try to make source of config.tar.gz, it complained:
>> > >
>> > > mkheaders.c:58:24: error:  crc_extern.h: No such file or
>> > > directory.
>> > >
>> > > I am tring to update kernel with current source, so I real need
>> > > the newer config.
>> > >
>> > Use build.sh and make sure it builds the tool chain first -- a new
>> > config is part of that process.
>>
>> So what's the point of config.tar.gz then, if you need to download the
>> whole source tree?
>>
> Truthfully, I didn't know there was such a thing; I'm generally working
> with the whole tree anyway.  But -- to build any kernel, you need a
> config command (from whatever source) of a matching version.  If the
> config.tar.gz you have isn't for 5.0, it won't work.  If the one in the
> 5.0 directory doesn't work, that would seem to represent a bug in the
> distribution process.  At this point, I'll bow out of the discussion
> and leave it to others who understand it more...
>
>
>                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>