From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 23 23:40:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 595BA14E99 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 23:40:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id IAA04019; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 08:08:37 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA48482; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 08:10:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199909240610.IAA48482@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: buildfailure -current on Alpha? In-Reply-To: <199909231603.JAA68483@vashon.polstra.com> from John Polstra at "Sep 23, 1999 9: 3:44 am" To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 08:10:30 +0200 (CEST) Cc: ken@kdm.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As John Polstra wrote ... > In article <199909230713.BAA02743@panzer.kdm.org>, > Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > > I take it you haven't rebuilt world in the past few months? There was a > > change that went in in June, I think, that requires that you reinstall > > ld-elf.so.1 manually before you can buildworld on an Alpha. Kinda > > annoying, I think. > > Annoying but unavoidable. There's no way to override the location of > the dynamic linker at make world time, for security-related reasons. > An important bugfix to the Alpha binutils required an updated dynamic > linker to handle the new relocation type. The new dynamic linker was > committed well before the binutils changes that required it. But > still it can bite people who aren't tracking -current very closely. > That's life in currentland. The ld-elf.so.1 trick was indeed the problem. My previous build was indeed somewhere in June. Thanks for your suggestion. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message