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Subject: Re: installworld strangeness
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--On November 22, 2012 7:14:35 AM -0600 David Noel <david.i.noel@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Updating from 8.2 to 8.3 I'm running into the following:
>
> ===> include (install)
> creating osreldate.h from newvers.sh
> dirname: not found
> *** Error code 127
>
> Stop in /usr/src/include.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/src.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/src.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/src.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/src.
>
> Has anyone managed to work past this error message?

I just upgraded a system from 8.2 to 8.3 without a problem.  World build 
find as did kernel.

It sounds like you're missing source files.

Try fetching the source from svn and starting over.

svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.3/ /usr/src

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