Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 08:32:04 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: buildkernel failure because ctfconvert not installed Message-ID: <20200408083204.4a2d6dbc@ernst.home>
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Has anyone else seen this error?
I tried to build a kernel yesterday, but the build failed while compiling
modules because ctfconvert was not found.
I've had WITH_CTF=no in my src.conf for years, so neither ctfconvert nor
ctfmerge were installed.
OK, I'll just go to the source dirctories and build and install.
Nope. I got this error:
make: exec(ctfconvert) failed (No such file or directory)
and the build failed.
WTF? ctfconvert requires ctfconvert to build? That makes no sense and is
a real chicken-and-egg problem if I've ever seen one.
I ended up creating /usr/bin/ctf{convert,merge} shell scripts which simply
did exit 0. That allowed me to finally compile and install the utilities.
Now I'm forced to have WITH_CTF=yes in my src.conf. No big deal.
Still, it seems like the change to the make infrastructure which assumed
that cft{convert,merge} are always installed was rather premature.
--
Gary Jennejohn
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