From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 11 14:18:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from bunrab.catwhisker.org (adsl-63-193-123-122.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.123.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88DB037B407 for ; Sat, 11 May 2002 14:18:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bunrab.catwhisker.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bunrab.catwhisker.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4BLIQrn098993 for ; Sat, 11 May 2002 14:18:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@bunrab.catwhisker.org) Received: (from david@localhost) by bunrab.catwhisker.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4BLIQKV098992 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 11 May 2002 14:18:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 14:18:26 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <200205112118.g4BLIQKV098992@bunrab.catwhisker.org> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Solved -- was Re: buildworld seems broken (very early in process) In-Reply-To: <200205111336.g4BDa7SP097872@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, the reason no one else encountered the problem I had was that no one else did something quite so stupid.... :-( I had managed to botch the sources for /bin/cp during yesterday's build (in a misdirected effort to avoid the warnings) in such a way that the resulting program executed with a return code of 0, but merely failed (at least in some cases) to copy anything. Since /bin/cp is a fairly low-level program that is just kinda expected to work, the result was singualrly unpleasant. I'm building the "cross tools" (which is *much* further than I got before) as I type.... I was about to make an attempt at a humorous comment about the creativity involved in that partictular instantiation of breakage... but at the moment, I'm just relieved.... :-} Here's hoping that no one else does this, or that if it is done, this might help the poor soul to recognize, diagnose, and fix the problem. Cheers, david -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org Microsoft products -- for those times when reliability just doesn't matter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message