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From: Phil Payne <phil@sal-n-phil.net>
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Subject: Re: make installkernel help required. (ANSWER... sort of)
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On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 13:15, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> 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 :-/

Weirder... installed Eterm... and I can installkernel & install ports
fine. So looks like its only aterm & xterm that have given me a problem.

Phil.