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Date:      Tue, 02 Jan 2001 23:27:46 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Charlie Root <eculp@EnContacto.Net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Core dumps on Current Make World this morning 
Message-ID:  <53303.978474466@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Jan 2001 14:17:41 PST." <200101022217.f02MHfX57879@earth.backplane.com> 

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In message <200101022217.f02MHfX57879@earth.backplane.com>, Matt Dillon writes:
>
>:Ta-da!
>:
>:
>:> In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101021005460.14503-100000@zeppo.feral.com> Matthew Jacob writes:
>:> : Same with me.
>:> 
>:> This sounds like a job for Captain UPDATING:
>:> 
>:> 20010101:
>:> 	ex and vi were broken by some changes to sys/queue.h.  If
>:> 	you have a bad vi (and are getting core dumps when building
>:> 	termcap), you can work around this problem by adding -k to
>:> 	your command line.  This will cause the build to complete
>:> 	and install a new vi.  Once that's done, you can rebuild again
>:> 	without the -k to pick up anything that might have been
>:> 	ignored by the -k option.
>
>    Why in (insert favorite deity)'s name does ex and vi depend on
>    sys/queue.h ?

Actually they don't, they depend on db1.85's "mpool" which depends
on <sys/queue.h> since it lives in libc.

vi/ex comes with their own copy of <sys/queue.h>

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