From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 7 20:10:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA13776 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 20:10:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from keaggy.canonware.com (canonware.com [206.184.206.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA13675 for ; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 20:09:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jasone@canonware.com) Received: from localhost (jasone@localhost) by keaggy.canonware.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA19571; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 20:06:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jasone@canonware.com) Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 20:05:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Evans To: Kris Kennaway cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'make buildworld' failure for one week. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > mozart:/usr/src# BINFORMAT=ELF time make buildworld > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > -current isnt yet ready for elf-buildworlds unless you know what you're > doing. A message by Lee Cremeans popped up directly after yours where he > described the same failure point in his attempts to compile an elf-world. > > Remove the BINFORMAT=ELF and you should be able to bootstrap up to > current using the age-old aout format (and then convert to elf down the > track when support becomes finalized) Actually, I added the BINFORMAT=ELF variable because there was breakage in some of the makefiles that caused hard failures when BINFORMAT isn't defined. I don't know for sure if that's still there, but it was a week ago. I'm now in the (very slow) process of installing 980520-SNAP over my modem, so I'm taking the easy way out (I hope). =) Jason Jason Evans Email: [jasone@canonware.com] Web: [http://www.canonware.com/~jasone] Home phone: [(650) 856-8204] Work phone: [(408) 774-8007] Quote: ["Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration" - Thomas Edison] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message