From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 4 13:08:28 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA00276 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 13:08:28 -0800 Received: from bsd.coe.montana.edu (bsd.coe.montana.edu [153.90.192.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA00270 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 13:08:21 -0800 Received: (nate@localhost) by bsd.coe.montana.edu (8.6.8/8.3) id OAA08866; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 14:12:12 -0700 Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 14:12:12 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199501042112.OAA08866@bsd.coe.montana.edu> In-Reply-To: Glen Foster "make world falls over on ranlib libc.a" (Jan 4, 1:39pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: Glen Foster , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make world falls over on ranlib libc.a Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > with error message: > > ranlib: libc.a: Inappropriate file type or format > > after //ftp.freebsd.org/pu/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/usr/src.tar.gz; > rm -rf /usr/src; gunzip and un-tar into /usr/src; make world; oops, no > bsd.info.mk, make mk; make world on a 2.0R system. > > What am I doing wrong? How can I recover? I added changes to the world target to avoid this problem, but for now you need to re-compile and install 'ar', 'ranlib', and 'nm' and then all should be well. Nate