From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 15 18:26:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA07002 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 18:26:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (goldfish.pht.co.jp [210.171.55.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA06997 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 18:26:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA01119; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 18:23:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812160223.SAA01119@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: John Birrell cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), forrie@forrie.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Buildworld fails In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:29:57 +1100." <199812160229.NAA13518@cimlogic.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 18:23:33 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > Buildworld is still failing after a make clean, and cvsups today > > > (FreeBSD-3.0-CURRENT): > > > > There are no errors in this transcript. I suspect that you're not > > properly capturing the full build output; use the 'script' command > > for this. > > I think it's the "case of the missing elf shared loader" that only gets > reported by the kernel, not into user-space. Perl is really difficult > to bootstrap build. I wish we had a rule that said it is not allowed > to be used as a build tool. Perhaps I'll go hide now. 8-) If we had Tcl in the base system, this would be trivial. I don't want to use Perl at all - one is simply told that Perl is the be-all and end-all of hackish scripting languages, but it truly appears to be too fragile for that. If anyone wants to take the offending script and rewrite it in a fashion which is friendly to the build environment, please be my guest. Perhaps the built versions of the help texts should be committed to the repository? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message