Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:27:06 +0000 From: af300wsm@gmail.com To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, af300wsm@gmail.com, Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system Message-ID: <0015175cddd4563a6304639a2620@google.com> In-Reply-To: <20090223174304.GB40292@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Feb 23, 2009 10:43am, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:15:16AM +0000, af300wsm@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD > > 7.0-p10 (I believe I just did the csup last night). It gets to this > point > > and then stops with this error: > > > > touch gtype-desc.h > > touch: No such file or directory > The file gtype-desc.h doesn't exist on my 7.1 system. > I think that this means that the 'touch' binary is missing. See below. I had over looked that possibility but I agree now that you mention it especially in light of reading your further comments below. > Touch should never complain about missing files, because one of its > purposes is to create files that don't exist. So it is probably the > 'touch' binary itself is missing. Try 'which touch'. It should report > '/usr/bin/touch'. If it doesn't, touch is MIA. > It might be saved in the lost+found directory of the partition that > holds /usr/bin. > The easiest way to get it back is to just build touch. Or copy it from > the install/live-cd. I'ma little unclear about how to build individual programs from within the source tree. Can you please explain how I'd do this? Thanks, Andyhome | help
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