Re: Bootstrapping on KISS GNU/Linux

[Jason Bacon <jtocino%gmx.com@localhost>]

On 11/9/23 16:41, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
> On 09-11-2023 16:30, Jason Bacon wrote:
> > Somehow it seems that bootstrap is failing to create directories like
> > bin and etc under ${PREFIX} on this distro.
>
> Installing gawk allows this to work. In addition fixing /dev using
> Michael Forney's suggestion solved the issues fully. (You could possibly
> add a check for /dev/null working properly to the script, but I imagine
> this case might be a relatively rare one.)

I think the lack of /dev should be considered an OS bug, so I'm not
inclined to add a check for it.  If you can demonstrate that this is an
intentional feature that exists for good reason, I'd consider it.

> I guess most systems will have gawk or a comparable tool available or
> the busybox implementation doesn't cut it?

I think the /dev fix is probably sufficient.  Based on the error
messages I saw, it looks like bootstrap will install nawk itself if
necessary, but couldn't because of the /dev problem.

Best,

	J