On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:13:28AM +0100, david Kwok wrote:
> I got the gz file from ftp.netbsd.org and ftp.au.netbsd.org. I have received 

which directory on the ftp server ?
Are you sure you got the 1.6 sources ?

> an advise to compile usr.sbin/config and it seems to at least get over the 
> above problem. However, the compilation of the kernel still fail and make was 
> initiated. I have to have a look at the error message to post it.
> 
> So far I have done the compilation on 3 different machines and on each 
> occassion, it fails to complete the compilation.
> 
> As a related issue I also tried to compile 1.6 kernel with the syssrc.tar.gz 
> on a 1.5 version system. I think it should still go ok, shouldn't it?

No, you need to upgarde several tools. The best way is to get the entire
NetBSD sources and use build.sh in this case.

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