Re: Unable to build tools for amd64 -current

[Louis Guillaume <louis%zabrico.com@localhost>]

On 11/22/10 5:57 PM, Louis Guillaume wrote:
> On 11/22/10 5:07 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 02:33:43PM -0500, Louis Guillaume wrote:
> > > I just recently (a few days ago) set up a new machine for building
> > > amd64 -current. It's running a XEN3_DOMU kernel from the 20101117
> > > snapshot. I retrieved a fresh checkout of "src" (no tags). If I try
> > > to...
> >
> > Just update /bin/sh first, e.g.
> > cd /usr/src/bin/sh
> > make USETOOLS=never
> > make USETOOLS=never install
> >
> > ...and afterwards you should have a working system to do the rest from.
> >
> > Joerg
>
> Thanks, Joerg. This fails (see below.) But I think I'll grab the
> snapshot from 11/21 and see what happens...


Ok - reinstalling from a later snapshot took care of this. I suspect 
that "postinstall ... fix obsolete" (perhaps run in haste after 
etcupdate) from netbsd-5 to -current may have deleted a few files that 
it shouldn't have. Otherwise that older snapshot probably has problems.

Thanks again,

Louis