> >Has *anybody* done a successful make build recently?  If so:
>
> yes.  from sources cvs updated on august 20, at 3:20pm gmt.  or
> thereabouts.  it took about 20 minutes for the update to complete.
>

It was around that date I started having problems.  Twice in the last 4 days
I've done complete checkouts to make sure I hadn't screwed something up, so
mine are very recent.


> >  o  What tools are you using (/usr/bin or toolchain or combination)?
>
> uh...whatever gets built by default on sparc.  i decided to do my
> sparc because that's the most "disposable" of my machines.  if it gets
> burned up doing a build, i can just reinstall or whatever.
>

I'm on 386 machines, although I've been trying to do it on 3 different ones
with similar results (must be because the same operator is involved  :) ).

> >  o  What are the settings in mk.conf?
>
> BSDOBJDIR!=echo /usr/obj/${MACHINE}-on-`uname -m`
> OBJMACHINE=yes
> TOOLDIR!=echo /usr/src/tools-`uname -m`
> MKOBJDIRS=yes
>
> i'm just a little pedantic.  :)

Hmm.  I've been using:

  __TOOLARCH!=uname -m
  TOOLDIR=/usr/obj/tools/obj.$(__TOOLARCH)

which are the tools built (unless MKTOOLS=no is set).  Maybe I'll give your
setting a try.

Thanks for the feedback!

Ken