Re: bin/49389: config(1) is incompatible with previous releases

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Nov 12,  8:40pm, martin%NetBSD.org@localhost (martin%NetBSD.org@localhost) wrote:
-- Subject: bin/49389: config(1) is incompatible with previous releases

| >Number:         49389
| >Category:       bin
| >Synopsis:       config(1) is not backwards compatible
| >Confidential:   no
| >Severity:       serious
| >Priority:       medium
| >Responsible:    bin-bug-people
| >State:          open
| >Class:          sw-bug
| >Submitter-Id:   net
| >Arrival-Date:   Wed Nov 12 20:40:00 +0000 2014
| >Originator:     Martin Husemann
| >Release:        NetBSD 7.99.1
| >Organization:
| The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
| >Environment:
| System: NetBSD seven-days-to-the-wolves.aprisoft.de 7.99.1 NetBSD 7.99.1 (GENERIC) #2: Wed Oct 29 21:19:47 CET 2014 martin%seven-days-to-the-wolves.aprisoft.de@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64
| Architecture: x86_64
| Machine: amd64
| >Description:
| 
| Trying to build a netbsd-7 kernel using config(1) from -current fails, the
| generated makefile references "build_kernel" which does not exist in the -7
| tree.
| 
| While this is not exacactly a supported thing (and there is an obvious
| workaround), it always used to work.

I think part of the fault is that the $S/conf/Makefile* needs to be synced
with config for things to work.

christos