Subject: Re: HEADS UP: new toolchain info! (now default on i386)
To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
From: Ian Fry <Ian.Fry@sophos.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/28/2001 14:23:42
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:20:49AM -0400, Andrew Brown wrote:
> >> >   building standard c library     
> >> >   trap: Illegal number: EXIT      
> >> >   trap: Illegal number: HUP
> >> this looks like you need a newer sh.  from the cvs log for trap.c:
> >> [snip change log]
> >> 
> >> how old is your present /bin/sh?
> >Whatever is in 1.5.2 (I'm trying to cross-build -current from 1.5.2, as Todd
> >claimed was possible in his original HEADS UP message)
> ah...then seems that the current code depends on features being in sh
> that the 1.5.2 sh doesn't have.  1.5.2's sh contains rev 1.24.4.2 of
> trap.c, whereas code to support the things it looks like it's doing
> weren't added until 1.26 and weren't pulled up.

Ah, I see.

> what happens if you just try to build the sh in your -current source
> right now?

I'll try it when I get back home, and report back what happens.

Thanks,

Ian.