On 27 Jun 2005, at 13:13, Ed Gould wrote:

>> Unfortunately for the last week or two I've been unable to build any 
>> of
>> the distribution sets.  Is this happening to others?  The most common
>> problem seems to be 'extra' or 'missing' files ... presumably when the
>> tarballs are being created, I don't know ...
>
> Extra files happen when the build area has old stuff in it.  Start with
> a clean directory.  If you're seeing missing files, then your
> distribution may be out of sync.

... which directory?  I've already blown away /usr/obj and issued a 
make clean
at the head of /usr/src a number of times with the same result ... 
building
the tools seems to work OK as does building the kernel itself ...

-- 
Malcolm Herbert
Computer Support Officer
School of Geosciences
Monash University
ph 9905 4881