Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:17:59 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> Cc: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: too much confusion over kernel building Message-ID: <20010118101759.A11121@rapier.smartspace.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20010118080620.887453E02@bazooka.unixfreak.org>; from dima@unixfreak.org on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 12:06:15AM -0800 References: <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> <20010118080620.887453E02@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
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On Thu 2001-01-18 (00:06), Dima Dorfman wrote: > > This is causing the problem: > > > > My reminder to Marcel and other hackers that this problem exists: > > > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=729536+733077+/usr/local/www/db/t > > ext/2000/cvs-all/20001224.cvs-all > > > > Marcel, the designer of the new system, saying that buildkernel should > > revert to the running system in the absence of a populated /usr/obj: > > > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=761905+765570+/usr/local/www/db/t > > ext/2000/cvs-all/20001224.cvs-all > > > > A description of why 'nm' is failing: > > > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=837688+841420+/usr/local/www/db/t > > ext/2000/cvs-all/20001224.cvs-all > > Well, looks like the patch I just sent in response to one of Dan's > messages does just that. :-) That doesn't match the behaviour of the PATH variable, which is set in (for example) IMAKEENV to not include the user-supplied PATH variable. I've sent a request to current@ and hackers@ for suggestions, and a more focussed patch. Let's continue any patch discussions on that thread there rather. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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