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Date:      Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:27:42 +0100
From:      j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
To:        Jose Marques <jose.marques@nottingham.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MAKEDEV problem in recent stable
Message-ID:  <20010913122742.C93675@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010913112903.B406-100000@pccigv6.nottingham.ac.uk>; from jose.marques@nottingham.ac.uk on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:32:22AM %2B0100
References:  <20010913112903.B406-100000@pccigv6.nottingham.ac.uk>

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I believe this issue was *just* addressed, probably in yesterday's archives.
Do a search, or even just browse for MAKEDEV.


On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:32:22AM +0100, Jose Marques wrote:
| I don't have access to my freebsd-stable mailbox so I don't know if this
| has already been posted.  When running mergemaster after rebuilding
| FreeBSD I received the following error:
| 
| *** You installed a new /dev/MAKEDEV script, so make sure that you run
|     'cd /dev && /bin/sh MAKEDEV all' to rebuild your devices
| 
|     Would you like to run it now? y or n [n] y
|     Running cd /dev && /bin/sh MAKEDEV all
| 
| MAKEDEV: arith: syntax error:
| 
| As a quick fix you can prevent this error by commenting out the following
| line from MAKEDEV
| 
| 	sh MAKEDEV zs0 # big-Alpha serial tty
| 
| The "MAKEDEV all" command then works without the error.
| 
| -- 
| Jose Marques
| 
| 
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jm
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