Yes...just hit this today with yesterday's sup, compiling on
sparc...Anybody know what this is?  I couldn't find any other
reference to that variable anywhere in sys/kern.  It appears to be the
textual name of the dump device, but where would it be set?

                  -Dave McGuire

On June 17, you wrote:
> 
> Anyone else run into the following:
> 
> ---
> cc  -O2 -Werror -I. -I../../../../arch -I../../../.. -nostdinc -DSWAPPAGER
> -DVNODEPAGER -DDEVPAGER -DEXEC_AOUT -DEXEC_SCRIPT -DVAX410 -DFIFO
> -DCOMPAT_12 -DKTRACE -DINET -DFFS -DNFS -DCD9660 -DMAXUSERS=8 -D_KERNEL
> -D_VAX_INLINE_  -c vers.c
> ld -Z -Ttext 80000000 -e _start -S -o netbsd ${SYSTEM_OBJ} vers.o
> kern_subr.o: Undefined symbol `_dumpspec' referenced from text segment
> kern_subr.o: Undefined symbol `_dumpspec' referenced from text segment
> kern_subr.o: Undefined symbol `_dumpspec' referenced from text segment
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> atari-vax#
> ---
> 
> The variable is used in /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_subr.c, and it's also
> declared in /usr/src/sys/sys/systm.h, but it's defined nowhere.  The
> reference to dumpspec doesn't exist at all in the source tree of the 
> recent 1.2F kernel I'd been using.
> 
> I guess it's not a VAX specific problem, but I'd wondered if anyone else
> has seen this yet?
> 
> (Oh yeah, sorry Oscar -- the kernel compile didn't complete :-)
> 
> -brian.
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