From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 28 18:10:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D210154E0 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 18:10:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA03777 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 04:10:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 04:10:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199903290210.EAA03777@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: `make release' fails Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ah! I'm so glad that I'm not the only idiot in the universe... :-) niels@bakker.net wrote in list.freebsd-stable: > Hi there, > > I've been trying to do a `make release' (to burn a CD for my own use), > but it keeps dying in perl: > > /usr/src/release # make BUILDNAME=3.1-19990327-SNAP CHROOTDIR=/R/rel \ > RELEASETAG=RELENG_3 NODOC=yes NOPORTS=yes release > [...] > Can't open perl script "-e": Device not configured > *** Error code 6 > [...] > It must be something simple. What am I doing wrong? Be sure NOT to mount your release partition with -o nodev. Regards Oliver PS: Two people ran into this problem... Does that qualify for a FAQ entry? :-) -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message