From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 18 0:18:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rapier.smartspace.co.za (rapier.smartspace.co.za [66.8.25.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A429937B402 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 00:18:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 11499 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Jan 2001 08:17:59 -0000 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:17:59 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Dima Dorfman Cc: Dan Langille , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: too much confusion over kernel building Message-ID: <20010118101759.A11121@rapier.smartspace.co.za> References: <20010118080620.887453E02@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010118080620.887453E02@bazooka.unixfreak.org>; from dima@unixfreak.org on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 12:06:15AM -0800 Organization: Building Intelligence X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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