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Date:      Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:30:31 +0100
From:      j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
To:        William Wong <willwong@samurai.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sh MAKEDEV all
Message-ID:  <20010921123031.B78591@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <000501c1424d$9a1ea860$0300a8c0@anime.ca>; from willwong@samurai.com on Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 11:29:19PM -0400
References:  <000501c1424d$9a1ea860$0300a8c0@anime.ca>

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On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 11:29:19PM -0400, William Wong wrote:
| Hi there,
| 
| After cvsup'n to RELENG_4_4 (from STABLE around July)
| 
| I got this error when doing a 'sh MAKEDEV all'
| 
| [mosquito] /dev>sh MAKEDEV all
| MAKEDEV: arith: syntax error: à
| "î
| 
| bad node: mknod i4bteld1
| 
| Though I don't think it affects anything since I don't use this device, it's
| kinda odd to get this error.
| 
| Mailing list archives reveal that 2 other ppl have reported this problem
| this month:
| 
| http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1047683+1050677+/usr/local/www/d
| b/text/2001/freebsd-stable/20010916.freebsd-stable
| 
| http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=802451+804089+/usr/local/www/db/
| text/2001/freebsd-stable/20010916.freebsd-stable
| 
| Anyone know what's causing this though?

It's a bug in sh, caused by CPUTYPE, that screws up handling of the devices
in MAKEDEV.

| 
| Regards,
| - Will
| 
| 
| 
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jm
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My other computer is your windows box.

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