Re: Correct way to update bmake and bootstrap-mk-files?

["Jason Boissiere" <jason.boissiere%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 4 Apr 2008, at 19:13, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:52:51PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:

Please beware that the above can go horribly wrong. If it does all life as you know it will stop instantaneously and every molecule in your body will
explode at the speed of light(*).

You mean like it doesn't reinstall bmake

Yes, correct. It is "bmake" that depends on "bootstrap-mk-files" and not
the other way around. The correct sequence command should therefore read:

sudo zsh
mkdir /safetmp
cp -Rp /usr/pkg/bin/make /usr/pkg/share/mk /safetmp
pkg_delete -ff bootstrap-mk-files
pkg_delete -ff bmake
cd /usr/pkgsrc/devel/bmake
/safetmp/bmake -m /safetmp install
rm -rf /safetmp

Stumbled across this discussion while trying to update bmake on OSF/1 and these instructions needed a little adjusting to work. My sequence of commands;

mkdir /safetmp
cp -Rp /usr/pkg/bin/make /usr/pkg/share/mk /safetmp

(failed, make not found)

cp -Rp /usr/pkg/bin/bmake /usr/pkg/share/mk /safetmp
pkg_delete -ff bootstrap-mk-files
pkg_delete -ff bmake
/safetmp/bmake -m /safetmp install

(failed, sys.mk not found)

/safetmp/bmake -m /safetmp/mk install

(worked, but no sign of installing bootstrap-mk-files)

ls /usr/pkg/share/mk

(non-existent)

cd ../../pkgtools/bootstrap-mk-files/
bmake install

(failed, no sys.mk, obviously)

bmake -m /safetmp/mk install

(worked, thankfully)

Wouldn't have got anywhere w/o the template though, so thanks for that. Hopefully this version will save someone the hassle of deleting the /safetmp/mk files before the new bootstrap-mk-files is installed.

Jason