Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 07:09:18 -0200 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Mathias.Picker@virtual-earth.de, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: loader from Nov 13 reboots instantly Message-ID: <3BF234BE.DD0DC4B6@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011113165353.54003B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson wrote: > > It's probably the awk bug. You need to use /boot/loader.old to boot the > system, build and install a fresh awk (gnu awk), then build and install a > fresh loader. > > You don't get bitten by this until the second upgrade after the bad awk > version was introduced, since the awk used to build the loader is the > system's native awk, not the awk in the build tree. This probably needs > to be changed so that awk is a buildtool, and one is built early to use > when building the loader. Is Perl a build tool? Awk was originally introduced when compiling FICL so that boot wouldn't depend on that Evil Thing (Perl). But standard FICL distribution uses a perl script instead of a awk one. OTOH, our awk script removes more white space than the perl one, but that can easily be corrected. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.secret.bsdconspiracy.net wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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