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Date:      Wed, 5 Nov 2014 19:52:52 +0000
From:      Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Chris H <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD CURRENT <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ERROR: ctfconvert: aaa_bbb.o doesn't have type data to convert
Message-ID:  <20141105195252.GD28596@ip-172-31-25-62.ec2.internal>
In-Reply-To: <91da76cad460313bda88ebb87ee20c14@ultimatedns.net>
References:  <91da76cad460313bda88ebb87ee20c14@ultimatedns.net>

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On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 11:03:46AM -0800, Chris H wrote:
> Greetings,
>  I'm building/installing world/kernel on a fresh 11-CURRENT.
> As I write this, the kernel is building, and emitting 100's
> of lines with the following:
> ERROR: ctfconvert: aaa_bbb.o doesn't have type data to convert
> where aaa_bbb is the driver file being created.
> Should I be concerned? What would cause this?

For posterity, we determined off-list that this was due to removing
DEBUG=-g from the kernel config. In this case the ctf tools have no
debug symbols to work with, hence the errors.



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