From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 18 8:32:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C8F437B43C for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 08:32:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA12565; Sat, 19 May 2001 01:32:08 +1000 Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 01:30:44 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@besplex.bde.org To: Adrian Browne Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup 17-5-2001 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 17 May 2001, Adrian Browne wrote: > cvsup 17-5-2001 > > buildworld worked fine > make install failed with the following: > > /usr/share/man/man1/tcsh.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/csh.1.gz > ===> bin/csh/nls > ===> bin/csh/nls/finnish > install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444 tcsh.cat > /usr/share/nls/fi_FI.ISO_8859-1/tcsh.cat > ln -fs ../fi_FI.ISO_8859-1/tcsh.cat > /usr/share/nls/fi_FI.ISO_8859-15/tcsh.cat > ln: /usr/share/nls/fi_FI.ISO_8859-15/tcsh.cat: No such file or directory > *** Error code 1 ISTR that this particular error can be caused by scrambled symlinks in the target directory. symlink(2) can create symlinks to null filenames ("ln -s '' foo") (despite null filenames being invalid). "make install" apparently can create a such a symlink near tsch.cat (I'm not sure when, but mostl likely just when the mtree database is wrong). Then "make install" gets confused by the null symlink. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message