Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 08:32:04 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: buildkernel failure because ctfconvert not installed Message-ID: <20200408083204.4a2d6dbc@ernst.home>
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Has anyone else seen this error? I tried to build a kernel yesterday, but the build failed while compiling modules because ctfconvert was not found. I've had WITH_CTF=no in my src.conf for years, so neither ctfconvert nor ctfmerge were installed. OK, I'll just go to the source dirctories and build and install. Nope. I got this error: make: exec(ctfconvert) failed (No such file or directory) and the build failed. WTF? ctfconvert requires ctfconvert to build? That makes no sense and is a real chicken-and-egg problem if I've ever seen one. I ended up creating /usr/bin/ctf{convert,merge} shell scripts which simply did exit 0. That allowed me to finally compile and install the utilities. Now I'm forced to have WITH_CTF=yes in my src.conf. No big deal. Still, it seems like the change to the make infrastructure which assumed that cft{convert,merge} are always installed was rather premature. -- Gary Jennejohn
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