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Subject: Re: make buildkernel for GENERIC 9-STABLE just hangs,
 no error (was svn commit: r249549 - in stable/9/sys: amd64/conf
 i386/conf)
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On Apr 17, 2013, at 17:41, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 04/17/13 03:29, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 04:09:28PM +0000, Brooks Davis wrote:
>>> Author: brooks
>>> Date: Tue Apr 16 16:09:27 2013
>>> New Revision: 249549
>>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/249549
>>> 
>>> Log:
>>>   MFC (much delayed) 234504:
>>>      Enable DTrace hooks in GENERIC.
>>> 
>>> Modified:
>>>   stable/9/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC
>>>   stable/9/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
>>> Directory Properties:
>>>   stable/9/sys/   (props changed)
>>> 
>>> ...
>> And here come the complaints, which warrant responses from key folks who
>> are in the know:
>> 
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-April/073132.html
>> 
> 
> It looks like 9 days ago there was a change (r249243) that fixed
> issues on the userland ctf utilities, so you have to update your
> userland too if it's not recent (make buildworld works fine).

That was only a fix for certain DWARF attributes emitted by clang and/or
newer gcc's, which would cause ctfmerge to error out.

If ctfmerge is hanging, that is almost certainly another problem.  That
is, if it is really hanging, isn't it just very slow, maybe?  What
happens if the original poster lets it run for e.g. an hour?