Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 16:53:31 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Dave Tweten <tweten@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -STABLE buildkernel broke! (linux module) Message-ID: <20011113165331.G61915@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <200111132342.fADNgVd40197@gilmore.nas.nasa.gov>; from tweten@nas.nasa.gov on Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 03:42:30PM -0800 References: <200111132342.fADNgVd40197@gilmore.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 03:42:30PM -0800, Dave Tweten wrote:
> My automatic Saturday morning script to rebuild from source failed this past
> Saturday morning while trying to build the kernel, as did many others'. My
> possible contribution to a fix is to place bounds upon the time when the bug
> was introduced.
>
> I run a completely vanilla sequence of cvs, make world, make kernel (and in
> parallel), make documentation. It is vanilla, that is, except for my custom
> kernel config. It worked the morning of November 3rd. It didn't work on the
> 10th. Except for the actual date, this past weekend's cvsup control file is
> typical:
>
> *default host=cvsup10.FreeBSD.org
> *default base=/usr
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs
> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> *default date=2001.11.10.08.00.00
> *default tag=.
> doc-all
> *default tag=RELENG_4
> src-all
>
> The automatic build process sets the date each time it is run.
>
> I haven't installed kernel or world since July 22, meaning that the tools used
> for make world and for make kernel were the same before and after the advent
> of the bug. So, it seems reasonable to me that it must have been introduced
> into STABLE after 8:00 GMT Saturday, November 3 and before 8:00 GMT Saturday,
> November 10. Since the first e-mail of the complaint tide (an e-mail from
> Greg Prosser <greg@straynet.com>) was dated 6:02 GMT Saturday, November 10, my
> guess is that the bug was introduced late last week.
>
> Like everyone else's, my process gets through building world and fails while
> building kernel in the linux module:
>
> In file included from linux_sysent.c:14:
> linux_proto.h:57: syntax error before `linux_time_t'
> linux_proto.h:57: `linux_time_t' undeclared here (not in a function)
>
> I'd be happy to provide any additional help I can to anyone interested in
> fixing this problem (and who is empowered actually to fix it).
The problem seems to be stale dependencies. Add,
# rm -rf /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/YOURKERNEL
Or better yet,
# rm -rf /usr/obj/usr
To your weekly script.
--
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| cjclark@jhu.edu
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