From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 20 13:01:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5F0E16A4CF for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 13:01:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93AA343D1D for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 13:01:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin01-en2 [10.13.10.146]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id i4KK1T56009855 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 13:01:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.8] (c-24-18-244-9.client.comcast.net [24.18.244.9]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin01/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id i4KK18Sg012993 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 13:01:29 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <6CFC6D66-AA98-11D8-8B72-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: FreeBSD-questions From: paul beard Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 13:01:04 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) Subject: port installation problems progress X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 20:01:40 -0000 I had been having some problems installing ports: they manifested as configure misreading the system type and setting up libtool so it wouldn't build shared libs. After some correspondence with a FreeBSD team member and a port maintainer, I decided to start afresh with a kernel and world reinstall. This led me to the solution. The email excerpted below mentioned almost the same error I was seeing: http://www.atm.tut.fi/list-archive/freebsd-stable/msg04153.html > For the last week or so, I've been having trouble building kernels > against a > RELENG_4 source tree. A 'make buildkernel' from /usr/src fails as > follows: > > perl5 /usr/src/sys/kern/vnode_if.pl -h /usr/src/sys/kern/vnode_if.src > syntax error at /usr/src/sys/kern/vnode_if.pl line 135, near "{}" > Execution of /usr/src/sys/kern/vnode_if.pl aborted due to compilation > errors. I took the advice suggested below. http://www.atm.tut.fi/list-archive/freebsd-stable/msg04174.html > I believe I have these resolved. > If anybody's interested, it took a reboot, buildworld followed by an > install > from /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl, then buildkernel went fine. At Mike > Tansca's suggestion, I'd tried a buildworld (against a fresh source > tree), > and I was getting cc errors - the reboot appears to have fixed those. > My > build machine is now happily running a new kernel/world. > Some packages are building OK but I still see issues on some ports. Any ideas how this might have gotten into this state and how I can resolve it completely? -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com