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Date:      Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:37:15 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bogus world build results? 
Message-ID:  <199810200237.TAA03287@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:18:39 PDT." <199810200218.TAA18294@austin.polstra.com> 

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> In article <199810192058.NAA01298@dingo.cdrom.com>,
> Mike Smith  <mike@smith.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > >>> aout make world completed on Mon Oct 19 13:43:00 PDT 1998
> > azaria:/usr/src>file `which ls`
> > /bin/ls: FreeBSD/i386 compact demand paged executable
> > azaria:/usr/src>objformat
> > elf
> > 
> > Something appears to have spagged $OBJFORMAT halfway through the build, 
> > resulting in an a.out world being built.  This is -current as of about 
> > 1pm PST today.
> 
> Just as a point of reference, I built world (ELF) from almost
> exactly the same sources today, without seeing any problems.

A complete extermination of the entire source and object tree fixed it; 
sounds like unexpected pollution or cosmic rays.

Still, it was pretty weird.  8/

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