freebsd 7.1, building kernel

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On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:13:55 -0700 (PDT)
gahn <ipfreak at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I am trying to build customized kernel with "device carp" and
> followed kernel building procedure of the handbook. unfortunately it
> is failed:
> 
> lab1# make buildkernel KERNCONF=lab1
> ERROR: Missing kernel configuration file(s) (lab1).
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/src.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel     13 Jun 20  2005 .cvsignore
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel    534 Nov 24 21:59 DEFAULTS
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  12412 Nov 24 21:59 GENERIC
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   1745 Nov 24 21:59 GENERIC.hints
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   1034 Nov 24 21:59 MAC
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel    131 Nov 24 21:59 Makefile
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  38713 Nov 24 21:59 NOTES
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   2016 Nov 24 21:59 PAE
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   3539 Nov 24 21:59 XBOX
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel     20 Mar  9 18:08 lab1
> -> /root/kernels/lab1


This appears to be /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/ (note the PAE file), but
the following line suggests you are running amd64.

> FreeBSD piper_2 7.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p3 #1: Mon Mar  9
> 16:48:31 EDT 2009     admin at lab1:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> 
> but for the kernel name GENERIC, the command work fine:

probably because it's finding the amd64 GENERIC file
in /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/ rather than your symlink.