Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 08:57:10 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Build failure in 2.1-RELEASE to -stable transition. Message-ID: <199605082327.IAA00255@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <25062.831590252@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at May 8, 96 02:17:32 pm
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Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > > > ===> share/doc/papers/memfs > > > indxbib -o ref.bib /usr/src/share/doc/papers/memfs/ref.bib > > > indxbib:fatal error: can't open `/usr/share/dict/eign': No such file or dir > ectory > > > > This is almost certainly you forgetting to install the 'dict' distribution. > > But you don't understand - "I" didn't have anything to do with it! > This is make world here, and it's supposed to run all the way through > by installing things in the proper sequence. ...but if you don't have the 'dict' distribution installed before you start 'make world', it will fall over like this. I agree that this is stupid, and I'm not 100% sure that it _is_ your problem, but suffuce to say that when I build a 2.1-to-become-stable system, I install the 'bin' and 'dict' distributions because I've been burnt by this one before... > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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