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From: jiml@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu (James E. Leinweber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: building kernels
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Date: 7 Dec 90 18:25:15 GMT
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flanagan@lisbon.stat.washington.edu (Jim Flanagan) writes:

>>>Third question: Rebuilding the kernel by hand was FUN! Why did DEC take
>>>this away from us? (If you try to do it by hand under 4.0, it rarely works)

>  Well, unless I use the "doconfig" when making the kernel (which has been
>  known to give unpredictable results, like removing important device drivers
>  entries, &c.) I get a whole lot of undefined symbol errors...

Ultrix seems to choke building kernels unless you do a "make clean"
in between.  I don't have any trouble "by hand" with sequences like:

config; cd /sys/VAX/whatever; make clean; make depend; make vmunix

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