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To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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Subject: Re: make universe errors.. 
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In message <4825CF8D.8020202@elischer.org>, Julian Elischer writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>> how many errors in a make universe are expected?
>> 
>> None.
>> 
>> But we do see some warnings that people probably should pay attention to. 
>> 
>> I suggest you compare to the tinderboxes as a first sanity-check.
>> 
>> It would be a good addition to the tinderboxes with an installworld
>> test, even if only on one arch, and a universe test on at least
>> i386 and amd64.
>
>as I said, my make universe test dies pretty quiclky at libc
>building shared library libc.so.7
>/usr/obj/amd64/usr/src/tmp/usr/lib/libgcc.a: could not read symbols: 
>Archive has
>  no index; run ranlib to add one
>*** Error code 1

Try nuking /usr/obj/* and make sure you have no spurious stuff
in your src tree.

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