From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 30 5:49:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from uncle.cult.cu (uncle.cult.cu [169.158.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5610C14D64 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 05:48:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from elie@uncle.cult.cu) Received: from localhost (1674 bytes) by uncle.cult.cu via sendmail with P:stdio/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) (ident using unix) id for ; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 08:48:30 -0400 (CDT) (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #4 built 1998-Sep-15) Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 08:48:30 -0400 (CDT) From: Eliezer Rodriguez Gonzalez To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 04:39:44PM -0400, Eliezer Rodriguez Gonzalez wrote: > > > > During my first (finally successfull) upgrade of my 2.2.6 system to 3.2 > > stable I encountered, due to my ignorance, problems arising from the > > lacking of the MACHINE_ARCH variable in my environment. I didn't know it > > should be set before firing make aout-to-elf-build, although I realize (of > > course) it should be set to i386 'cause I'm a PC user. > > If MACHINE_ARCH is undefined, it means i386 (historically in FreeBSD). > MACHINE_ARCH should never by the user. Please don't suggest to people > that they do that. If there is a problem with the aout-to-elf-build > barfing because MACHINE_ARCH is not set, then a different fix is required. > > -- > John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ > CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 > Sorry, but I did not want to suggest nothing to people, I just ran into this problem and someone in the list told me it could be this variable. I just want to know if there area really any variables that should be set prior to run the make whatever. Anyway, in order for me to succeed I had nothing left but setting it by hand myself, 'cause I never received any other advice. Sorry if this 'causes problem here in the list, I'm just looking for help. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message