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Subject: Re: kernel-toolchain won't compile
From: Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
To: Martin Galvan <omgalvan.86@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 2013-10-04 at 15:02 -0300, Martin Galvan wrote:
> Hey, how's it going? I'm currently trying to cross-compile CURRENT for a
> Cubieboard1. I'm following this tutorial:
> 
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Cubieboard
> 
> However, when I try to compile the kernel toolchain I get the following
> error:
> 
> ===> lib/ncurses/form (cleandir)
> Unknown modifier 't'
> 
> Error expanding embedded variable.
> *** Error code 2
> 
> Stop in /home/ppsmartin/FreeBSD-CURRENT/lib/ncurses.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /home/ppsmartin/FreeBSD-CURRENT/lib.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /home/ppsmartin/FreeBSD-CURRENT.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> At first I thought it was because I used TARGET_ARCH=armv6, but it also
> happens when doing make kernel-toolchain TARGET=i386. Anyone else is having
> this issue?

That happens when you try to build -current on a "too old" system.  I'm
not sure what too old is, but my 8.3 system had that problem and the
only way I could get rid of it was to hack the make in 8.3 to understand
the new bmake style variable modifiers.

-- Ian