On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 08:15:03PM +0200, Martin Ammermueller wrote:
> Well, I've tried it again and supped the source-tree
> for 1.5-stable yesterday and the "make build" today
> failed again:
> 
> [...]
> /usr/src/lib/libc/net/nsap_addr.c:53: unterminated string or character constant
> /usr/src/lib/libc/net/nsap_addr.c:1: possible real start of unterminated constant
> mkdep: compile failed.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> [...]
> 
> Just a question: I aborted the first sup with ^C because it had taken too long
> (more than 6 hours !). Is interrupting sup in such a way a problem?

It's possible. I guess you've got network problems then.
Try to remove /usr/src/lib/libc/net/nsap_addr.c
and do a 'sup -o'

> Are there shorter ways to achieve an actual stable source-tree?

anoncvs (but I'm not sure it's faster); Maybe there's tar archives in
pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-relelase-1-5 on the ftp server.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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