Re: How to bootstrap when sed and awk are unusable

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 10:17 AM Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> * On 2018-08-08 at 08:11 BST, Benny Siegert wrote:
>
> > Because the system has no diff and patch, diffutils is built as a tool
> > early in the bootstrap and fails with
>
> Why?  Everything in bootstrap is already unpacked and patched, so
> there should be no need for this.  Try and find out why this is being
> performed first.

Good point! Somehow, bootstrap-mk-files has a tool dependency on patch.

===> Installing packages
===> running: (cd /usr/local/pkgsrc/pkgtools/bootstrap-mk-files &&
/usr/local/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/bin/bmake  MAKE_JOBS=8
PKG_COMPRESSION=none -DPKG_PRESERVE
MAKECONF=/usr/local/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/mk.conf install)
===> Installing dependencies for bootstrap-mk-files-20170802
=> Tool dependency diffutils>=2.8.1: NOT found
=> Verifying reinstall for ../../devel/diffutils
=> Bootstrap dependency digest>=20010302: NOT found
=> Verifying reinstall for ../../pkgtools/digest


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Benny