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To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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Subject: Re: make world problems 
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   of "Mon, 11 Aug 1997 22:56:05 PDT." <199708120556.WAA00445@austin.polstra.com> 
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John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> replied:
> In article <199708120222.VAA05017@nospam.hiwaay.net>,
> > 
> > ===> gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
> > ===> gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/libtxi
> > ".depend", line 1: Need an operator
> > ".depend", line 2: Need an operator
> > Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> > *** Error code 1
> > [...]
> > Obviously my source tree is somehow hosed, in a way that passes cvsup. Any 
> > ideas? Wipe clean and pull down a new one?
> > 
> > Or do I have /usr/share/mk/* hosed?
> 
> Actually it's most likely your /usr/obj/* that's hosed.  It looks
> like a bad .depend file in there.  Just to be sure, though, do an
> "ls -A /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/libtxi" and make sure there's
> not a .depend file in the source directory.  (If there is, get rid
> of it.)
> 
> If I were you, I'd "rm -rf /usr/obj/*" and then do a "make world".

Thanks! That was it. Something wacko in /usr/obj/* that didn't clean up 
with "cd /usr/src; make clean".

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