Subject: Re: make ramdisk-big fail
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/09/2006 12:00:37
On Sun, 09 Apr 2006, George Georgalis wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 12:09:01AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> >What's this doing in tech-kern?  I think current-users would be better.
> 
> I'm on that list, but I'm not running current, -r netbsd-3-0; seems
> a build problem, but feel free to reply to current-users if that's
> more appropriate.

I think we're basically done, so I'll leave this last reply in
tech-kern.

> > > #     strip  ramdiskbin
> > > make: don't know how to make /usr/src/etc/MAKEDEV. Stop
> > >
> > > make: stopped in /usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies/ramdisk-big
> >
> >	[try cd /usr/src/etc && make MAKEDEV]
> 
> well I was going on a howto, that I presume worked at some point,

The MAKEDEV-related parts of src/etc/Makefile don't seem to have changed
much since October 2003.  I assume that the instructions you referred to
didn't ever work for building from a virgin source tree.

A doc patch would be nice, once you figure out what to do.

--apb (Alan Barrett)