Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:53:09 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Sam Drinkard <sam@wa4phy.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports not building! Message-ID: <200112212253.fBLMr9d08242@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Dec 2001 17:43:00 EST." <3C23BAF4.2D3D69D7@vortex.wa4phy.net>
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> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 17:43:00 -0500 > From: Sam Drinkard <sam@wa4phy.net> > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > > Kevin, your suggestion has just brought up something I guess I don't > understand, or I clobbered something when I build 4.4-Stable. I just > did a "which make" and I see */bin/make*. The same thing happened when > I THOUGHT netstat was broken, but come to find out, the netstat I was > calling was NOT in /usr/bin, but /bin. Why, are there different > instances of these binaries? Did I miss something so many years ago ? > Point me to the how-come! Sam, I find this VERY puzzling. Normally there is no netstat or make in /bin. The point of /bin is that it is in the root partition while /usr/bin is (normally) in a separate /usr partition. That means that commands in /usr/bin are not available until /usr is mounted and not in single user mode unless /usr is manually mounted. /bin is pretty sparse, containing only about 36 files, some of which are hard linked to other files (e.g. '[' to test and tcsh to csh). Of course, since /usr may not be mounted, all binaries in /bin are statically linked. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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