From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 19 19:35:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA24781 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:35:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA24774 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:35:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA03287; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:37:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810200237.TAA03287@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: John Polstra cc: mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bogus world build results? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:18:39 PDT." <199810200218.TAA18294@austin.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:37:15 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In article <199810192058.NAA01298@dingo.cdrom.com>, > Mike Smith 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/ -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message