make world fails in usr.sbin/config?

[Paul Mather]

On May 24, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:

> For added posterity, it looks like usr.sbin/config has been mostly
> untouched for quite some time, sans mkoptions.c and mkmakefile.c:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/config/

Having said that, there is this entry in /usr/src/UPDATING dating from early May:

20100502:
        The config(8) command has been updated to maintain compatibility
        with config files from 8.0-RELEASE.  You will need a new version
        of config to build kernels (this version can be used from 8.0-RELEASE
        forward).  The buildworld target will generate it, so following
        the instructions in this file for updating will work glitch-free.
        Merely doing a make buildkernel without first doing a make buildworld
        (or kernel-toolchain), or attempting to build a kernel using
        traidtional methods will generate a config version warning, indicating
        you should update.


Stefan's kernel looks to have last been built on 20th February 2010.  It isn't explicit in the first posting of this thread how Stefan is doing his build, so there is a possibility that he's being affected by the above UPDATING entry.

Cheers,

Paul.