Re: kern/44019: kernel build failure on -current (andoc.tmac)

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On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 05:05:03PM +0000, John Nemeth wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR kern/44019; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth)
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: kern/44019: kernel build failure on -current (andoc.tmac)
> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 10:02:26 -0700
> 
>  On Feb 16,  4:37am, bch%methodlogic.net@localhost wrote:
>  }
>  } >Number:         44019
>  } >Category:       kern
>  } >Synopsis:       Kernel build failure
>  } >Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>  } >State:          open
>  } >Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 31 16:30:00 +0000 2010
>  } >Originator:     bch%methodlogic.net@localhost
>  } >Release:        NetBSD 5.99.39
>  } >Organization:
>  }    Method Logic Digial
>  }    http://methodlogic.net/
>  } >Environment:
>  } System: NetBSD kamloops 5.99.39 NetBSD 5.99.39 (kamloops) #40: Thu Oct 28 
> 17:59:12 PDT 2010 root@kamloops:/usr/obj/sys/arch/amd64/compile/kamloops amd64
>  } Architecture: x86_64
>  } Machine: amd64
>  } >Description:
>  }    From sources checked out at approx. Sun Oct 31 09:22:25 PDT 2010, build 
> fails:
>  } 
>  }    make: make: don't know how to make 
> /tooldir.NetBSD-5.99.39-amd64/share/groff/tmac/andoc.tmac. Stop
>  } >How-To-Repeat:
>  }    ./build.sh -j 4 kernel=<mykernel>
>  
>       Please use:  ./build.sh -j 4 tools kernel=<mykernel>
>  
>       The error is telling you (in a roundabout way) that tools haven't
>  been built yet.  See this paragraph in src/BUILDING (in the
>  kernel=kconf section):
>  
>                     This command does not imply the tools command; run the
>                     tools command first unless it is certain that the tools
>                     already exist and are up to date.

OK -- good to know what the error is about, but I've been building
from this tree for weeks successfully, and in fact re-tried w/o "-j"
(and no other changes) and it worked fine. Strange.

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>  

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