Error in FreeBSD 8.0 Kernel compilation

spark_sara

When trying to compile my own kernel for FreeBSD 8.0, and I'm having some issues. In fact, I can't even re-compile the GENERIC kernel with no changes! The last few lines before I get errors when running make depend are... ../../../amd64/amd64/genassym.c:227: error: 'struct pcpu' has no member named 'pc_tss' ../../../amd64/amd64/genassym.c:241: error: 'GUCODE32_SEL' undeclared here (not in a function) ../../../amd64/amd64/genassym.c:242: error:...

Originally asked by JBirch on Stack Exchange (superuser) (CC BY-SA 2.5).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

It looks like the system is trying to build an i386 kernel on your amd64 system. Can you post the output of "uname -a", the contents of /usr/make.conf and /usr/src.conf please? Update : Having re-read the original question it appears you're not following the standard build process as outlined in the Handbook , which is probably why things are going wrong. You should be running make buildkernel to build a new kernel, and make installkernel to install it; make depend etc. are run as part of the build internally, but haven't been required to be run manually since the 4.x days.

Full answer by BCran: https://superuser.stackexchange.com/a/179403 (CC BY-SA 2.5).

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