Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 23:32:22 +0100 From: "ian j hart" <ianjhart@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk> To: "Eliezer Rodriguez Gonzalez" <elie@uncle.cult.cu>, "John Birrell" <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Some important environment variables. Message-ID: <000201bef0dc$c98bb440$332b883e@bigfoot> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908271631520.444-100000@uncle.cult.cu> <19990828065118.A36761@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au>
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----- Original Message ----- From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: Eliezer Rodriguez Gonzalez <elie@uncle.cult.cu> Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: 27 August 1999 21:51 Subject: Re: Some important environment variables. > On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 04:39:44PM -0400, Eliezer Rodriguez Gonzalez wrote: > > > > During my first (finally successfull) upgrade of my 2.2.6 system to 3.2 > > stable I encountered, due to my ignorance, problems arising from the > > lacking of the MACHINE_ARCH variable in my environment. I didn't know it > > should be set before firing make aout-to-elf-build, although I realize (of > > course) it should be set to i386 'cause I'm a PC user. > > If MACHINE_ARCH is undefined, it means i386 (historically in FreeBSD). > MACHINE_ARCH should never by the user. Please don't suggest to people > that they do that. If there is a problem with the aout-to-elf-build > barfing because MACHINE_ARCH is not set, then a different fix is required. > > -- > John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ > CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 > I have to admit that I did exactly the same thing when I upgraded. Due to my lack of logging, I forgot to mention it. Here's part of ERG's original message. Eliezer Rodriguez Gonzalez wrote. (1999 08 26). Re: [extract] ===> lib/libc "/usr/src/lib/libc/../libc/gen/Makefile.inc", line 32: Could not find /usr/src/lib/libc/../libc/unknown/gen/Makefile.inc "/usr/src/lib/libc/../libc/net/Makefile.inc", line 22: Could not find /usr/src/lib/libc/../libc/unknown/net/Makefile.inc "/usr/src/lib/libc/../libc/stdlib/Makefile.inc", line 23: Could not find /usr/src/lib/libc/../libc/unknown/stdlib/Makefile.inc "/usr/src/lib/libc/../libc/string/Makefile.inc", line 16: Could not find /usr/src/lib/libc/../libc/unknown/string/Makefile.inc "/usr/src/lib/libc/../libc/sys/Makefile.inc", line 16: Could not find /usr/src/lib/libc/../libc/unknown/sys/Makefile.inc make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue *** Error code 1 Stop. [end of extract] I guessed that 'unknown' should be i386, and *fixed* /etc/make.conf so that it worked. I would be interested to know what the correct fix is. In any case someone needs to look at this PDQ. ian e-mail: ianjhart@x-stream.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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