re: HEAD tools build broken on amd64

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 6 Sep 2020, Paul Goyette wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Sep 2020, matthew green wrote:
>
> > > /build/netbsd-compat/src_ro/tools/binutils/../../external/gpl3/binutils/dist/bfd/netbsd.h:54:10: 
> > > fatal error: bfd.h: No such file or directory
> > >   #include "bfd.h"
> > >            ^~~~~~~
> >
> > do you have a bfd.h lying around somewhere it shouldn't?  check
> > your source tree for extra files?  eg 'cvs up -dPA -I\! -ICVS'.
> > sometimes make can find something gcc won't, and this happens.
>
> Hmmm.  "Extra files" would mean "file that _is_ there but _should_not_
> be there", while the actual error message would seem to indicate that
> the "file bfd.h _is_not_ there but _should_ be there".
>
> In either case I ran the sugggested ``cvs up'' command (with the -q
> option, to avoid the plethora of "Updating <dirname>" messages) and
> nothing out of the ordinary shows up.
>
> I probably ought to mention a couple more items:
>
> * This happens in two separate sources trees, and
> * it happens with a completely empty TOOLDIR (and OBJDIR and DESTDIR)

And one more item which likely will help find the real culprit:

Running the exact same build.sh with -j12 succeeds!  So it would seem
that something somewhere (TM) is creating the required bfd.h file, in
the tools-object directory perhaps?


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