Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:15:49 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Phil Payne <phil@sal-n-phil.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make installkernel help required. (ANSWER... sort of) Message-ID: <20040922121549.GA870@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <1095849784.39983.2.camel@gw.internal> References: <1095692181.643.3.camel@gw.internal> <b2807d0404092012164482224f@mail.gmail.com> <1095708454.643.10.camel@gw.internal> <b2807d0404092012522360c8ba@mail.gmail.com> <1095710679.643.12.camel@gw.internal> <1095848367.4475.15.camel@gw.internal> <20040922103835.GA85905@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <1095849784.39983.2.camel@gw.internal>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 2004-09-22 11:43, Phil Payne <phil@sal-n-phil.net> wrote: > On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 11:38, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2004-09-22 11:19, Phil Payne <phil@sal-n-phil.net> wrote: > > > ... I ran the make installkernel outside of X (i.e. in a console) > > > and it works fine. Try to run it in aterm or xterm and you get > > > the "can't shift that many" error. I cannot pretend to know > > > anything about why this is the case. > > > > This error seems to be caused by some sort of mishandling of nls.alias > > when this command runs: > > > > : cd /usr/share/nls; set - `grep "^[a-zA-Z]" /usr/src/etc/nls.alias`; > > : while [ $# -gt 0 ] ; do rm -rf "$1"; ln -s "$2" "$1"; shift; shift; > > : done > Here's the nls.alias file: > > gw# cat /usr/src/etc/nls.alias > # $FreeBSD: src/etc/nls.alias,v 1.5 2003/06/10 01:22:30 ache Exp $ > > POSIX C > en_US.US-ASCII C Weird. Everything seems ok but you seem to be bumping on a problem related to the shell in use :-/
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040922121549.GA870>