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Subject: RE: dumb question 'Bad system call' after make world
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From: Barney Wolff [mailto:barney@databus.com]
> Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 1:14 PM
> To: Bruce Evans
> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: dumb question 'Bad system call' after make world
> 
> 
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 11:42:04PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Barney Wolff wrote:
> > 
> > > Will somebody please tell me when "make world" is ever 
> correct in the
> > > environment of the last several years?  I've been unable 
> to understand
> > > its continued existence as a target.
> > 
> > >From my normal world-building script:
> > 
> >     DESTDIR=/c/z/root \
> >     MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/c/z/obj \
> >     time -l make -s world > /tmp/world.out 2>&1
> 
> Oh, so it's only correct when you're not really installing world on
> the system you're building on?  Would replacing this with
> ( make buildworld && make installworld ) really be a hardship?
> Must we continue to invite innocents to clobber their systems?

For interest, in case this happens to someone else, i 'fixed'
it by booting from the mini iso disk, inserting disk 2 (live),
going to a shell, and copying all of /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/lib,
/usr/libexec, /lib over to the hd, rebooting, and then doing
the rest of the normal steps.

--don