Hello Glen,

I'm new to NetBSD - so I tried your way to fetch the tar_files with sup (I never
used sup before ... so I tried it and used your sup-file after I had a closer
look at sup) - that was yesterday.

I ended up with the same result so I fetched the sources one more time after I saw
sup fetched tar_files that were quiet "old". This time from:

	ftp://ftp.de.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/tar_files/src/

untared them - chanced to /usr/src - updated the sources with

cvs -q update -dP

After this I upgraded my system (i386) using build.sh with the "distribution" and after
this "install=/" ... and had a closer look to everything that is in /etc by
using etcupdate(8) ... everything went fine without any problems (for the first
time to me).

That was around 12 hours ago ...

I don't know why I ended up with the same result as you with those "old" sources -
perhaps there was a problem while cvs patched files that changed ... but this
worked for me.

Best regards,

    Andreas Burghardt


On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 10:25:09AM -0500, Glen Johnson wrote:
> Good day,
> I am trying to compile the latest NetBSD 4.0 kernel in an attempt to do
> a little testing.  According to
> http://netbsd.org/Documentation/current/#downloading.
> 
> 
>       Note
> 
> It is almost always faster for a first-time "whole source" checkout to
> FTP the tarballs <http://netbsd.org/Documentation/current/#downloading>
> and untar them locally because that makes best use of the network link.
> After that, using cvs checkout/update works to minimize the number of
> bytes coming over by sending only the changes.
> 
> I decided to take this advise and use sup at the same time.  So I used
> sup to download the latest release-4-0 tar files.  Below is the sup file
> I used.
> release-4-0 release=tar_files host=sup.NetBSD.org hostbase=/ftp/pub \
> base=./ prefix=./ backup use-rel-suffix compress
> 
> This worked wonderfully!  I then un-tarred the files, did chmod +x
> build.sh, and executed ./build.sh tools.  After some processing the
> tools build died.  Below is part of that output.
> 
> 
> #      link  tsort/tsort
> cc -O -I/home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tools/compat/obj
> -I/home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tools/compat/obj/include 
> -I/home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tools/tsort/../compat
> -DHAVE_NBTOOL_CONFIG_H=1  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64    -o tsort tsort.lo
> -L/home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tools/compat/obj -lnbcompat -lz
> dependall ===> uudecode
> #    create  uudecode/uudecode.d
> /home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tooldir.NetBSD-3.1-i386/bin/nbhost-mkdep
> -f uudecode.d --     -I/home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tools/compat/obj
> -I/home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tools/compat/obj/include 
> -I/home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tools/uudecode/../compat
> -DHAVE_NBTOOL_CONFIG_H=1  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  
> /home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tools/uudecode/../../usr.bin/uudecode/uudecode.c
> #    create  uudecode/.depend
> rm -f .depend
> /home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tooldir.NetBSD-3.1-i386/bin/nbhost-mkdep
> -d -f .depend -s .lo\ .ln uudecode.d
> #   compile  uudecode/uudecode.lo
> cc -O -I/home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tools/compat/obj
> -I/home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tools/compat/obj/include 
> -I/home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tools/uudecode/../compat
> -DHAVE_NBTOOL_CONFIG_H=1  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  -c -o uudecode.lo.o   
> /home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/usr.bin/uudecode/uudecode.c
> mv uudecode.lo.o uudecode.lo
> #      link  uudecode/uudecode
> cc -O -I/home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tools/compat/obj
> -I/home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tools/compat/obj/include 
> -I/home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tools/uudecode/../compat
> -DHAVE_NBTOOL_CONFIG_H=1  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64    -o uudecode
> uudecode.lo -L/home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tools/compat/obj
> -lnbcompat -lz
> dependall ===> texinfo
> /home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tools/texinfo/../../gnu/dist/texinfo/configure:
> 1: Syntax error: ")" unexpected
> 
> *** Failed target:  .configure_done
> *** Failed command: (cd build && CC=cc CFLAGS=-O CPPFLAGS= CXX=c++
> CXXFLAGS=-O
> INSTALL=/home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tooldir.NetBSD-3.1-i386/bin/nbinstall\
> -c\ \ -r LDFLAGS= AR=ar RANLIB=ranlib
> LEX=/home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tooldir.NetBSD-3.1-i386/bin/nblex
> MAKE=/home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tooldir.NetBSD-3.1-i386/bin/nbmake
> PATH="/home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tooldir.NetBSD-3.1-i386/bin:$PATH"
> YACC=/home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tooldir.NetBSD-3.1-i386/bin/nbyacc
> sh
> /home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tools/texinfo/../../gnu/dist/texinfo/configure
> --program-prefix=nb
> --prefix=/home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tooldir.NetBSD-3.1-i386)
> *** Error code 2
> 
> Stop.
> nbmake: stopped in /home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tools/texinfo
> 
> *** Failed target:  dependall
> *** Failed command: cd /home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tools/texinfo;
> /home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tooldir.NetBSD-3.1-i386/bin/nbmake realall
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> nbmake: stopped in /home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tools/texinfo
> 
> *** Failed target:  dependall-texinfo
> *** Failed command: _makedirtarget() { dir="$1"; shift; target="$1";
> shift; case "${dir}" in /*) this="${dir}/"; real="${dir}" ;; .) this="";
> real="/home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tools" ;; *) this="${dir}/";
> real="/home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tools/${dir}" ;; esac;
> show=${this:-.}; echo "${target} ===> ${show%/}${1:+ (with: $@)}"; cd
> "${real}" &&
> /home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tooldir.NetBSD-3.1-i386/bin/nbmake
> _THISDIR_="${this}" "$@" ${target}; }; _makedirtarget texinfo dependall
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> nbmake: stopped in /home/glen/src/c/netbsd/tars/src/tools
> 
> ERROR: Failed to make dependall tools
> *** BUILD ABORTED ***
> 
> Any pointers? 
> Am I still not downloading something that I need in the source somewhere? 
> Or is this one of those cases where you just don't do it that way?
> 
> I would like to compile this kernel and do some testing on it too.  I
> know any time testing is done by someone else they do it a little bit
> different, which is where many times bugs turn up.
> 
> Thank you,
> Glen Johnson