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Date:      Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:11:23 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys gpt.h src/lib/libstand Makefile src/sbin/gpt Makefile add.c boot.c gpt.8 gpt.c gpt.h show.c src/sys/boot/common ufsread.c src/sys/boot/i386 Makefile src/sys/boot/i386/gptboot Makefile gptboot.c gptldr.S ...
Message-ID:  <200710271811.26273.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071027194437.K4731@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <200710242133.l9OLX05K085372@repoman.freebsd.org> <200710271105.47091.jhb@freebsd.org> <20071027194437.K4731@fledge.watson.org>

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On Saturday 27 October 2007 02:45:42 pm Robert Watson wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, John Baldwin wrote:
> >> /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/gptboot/../btx/btx/btx -l gptldr.bin -o 
> >> gptboot gptboot.bin btxld:No such file or directory *** Error code 1
> >>
> >> Stop in /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/gptboot. *** Error code 1
> >
> > Hmm, this is probably the classic problem of the machine symlink being a 
> > newer date than the build causing installworld to try and rebuild the binary 
> > when it shouldn't.  I've seen this on boot2 when storing the output of a 
> > buildworld in a cpio and extracting it since cpio doesn't preserve the times 
> > on symlinks.  We actually just comment out the dependency on the 'machine' 
> > symlinks at work since we use cpio. :-/
> 
> Indeed -- it turned out that time in my Parallels VM had mysteriously 
> regressed four days (or failed to leap forward four days?).  ntpdate, blowing 
> away /usr/obj and touching /usr/src followed by a rebuild did the trick. 
> Sorry about the false alarm.

No problem, glad it is ok now.

-- 
John Baldwin



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