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From: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com>
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On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 22:15, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2004-06-16 22:03, Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 20:13, Sean McNeil wrote:
> > > I believe that most likely there is a config.guess issue here.  It would
> > > appear that the linker isn't setting
> > >
> > > NATIVE=yes
> > > USE_LIBPATH=yes
> > >
> > > for freebsd/amd64.  These should be set when host and target are the
> > > same.  This is causing all sorts of compilation problems.
> >
> > Actually, this appears to be a problem with the make mechanism.
> >
> > If I do
> >
> > make buildworld && make installworld
> >
> > it creates an improper ld.  If I do
> >
> > cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ld
> > make clean
> > make
> > make install
> >
> > Then I get an ld that works properly.
> >
> > Very odd.
> 
> Hmmm, are you by any chance using a /usr/obj of older builds?
> What happens if you start over with a completely clean /usr/obj?
> 
> If 'make clean' or 'make cleandir' is what it takes to fix things, stale
> object files from /usr/obj could be the source of all troubles.

That is possible.  I usually just rm -rf /usr/obj/* but I don't do it
religiously.  I'll try doing another buildworld/installworld later to
see.