On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 06:10:34PM +0100, Matthew Theobalds wrote:
> I realised my error and did:
> 
> 	cvs checkout -P syssrc/sys/conf
> 
> then moved the resulting conf directory to /usr/src, which means that 
> "/usr/src" now contains: "conf" "sys" "usr.sbin"
> 
> So it's definitely there.
> 
> Now, I do this:
> 
> gellum:/sys/arch/mac68k/conf# config gellum
> ../../../../arch/m68k/conf/files.m68k:1: cannot open 
> ../../../../conf/files for reading: No such file or directory
> 
> gellum:/sys/arch/mac68k/conf# ls ../../../../conf
> CVS                 files               newvers_stand.sh    param.c
> defines             newvers.sh          osrelease.sh
> 
> Is that really possible?

Sounds like you have a source tree that's out of sync with itself.

Do this:

cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/config && cvs update -dP
cd /usr/src/sys && cvs update -dP

(Yes, I know you're on a modem and this will be slow, but your
choices are this or an entirely fresh copy of the source.)

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