Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:21:41 -0700 From: chris#@1command.com To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it safe to delete /bin/[ && /usr/bin/false? Message-ID: <20080909162141.b1x2r25k0g4gockk@webmail.1command.com> In-Reply-To: <20080904034519.96acd326.stas@FreeBSD.org> References: <20080902104943.71ub86qsussgoo80@webmail.1command.com> <20080902190919.GE86609@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20080902122551.jfly404kcg00o40w@webmail.1command.com> <20080904034519.96acd326.stas@FreeBSD.org>
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Hello, and thank you for your reply. Quoting Stanislav Sedov <stas@freebsd.org>: > On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:25:51 -0700 > chris#@1command.com mentioned: > >> >> Good. Perhaps you (or anyone) can suggest how I might debug /when/where/ >> these eval are called. I could use /usr/bin/script, but not sure how to >> (e)grep the culprit(s). >> > > Try to find the exact script which causes this (it'd be pretty easy if you > could find a port with this error reproducible). Then you will be able > to track the problem down by inserting a couple of echos/exits in the > offending script and observing the result. Well, I ultimately found the problem by recognizing a pattern. Since the error messages hadn't proved fatal as far as I could see. I just continued to build as required - always keeping a watchful eye. I began to notice what seemed to be ports checking against Apache were emitting errors, where others were not. Then it occurred to me that my problem was self-inflicted. I had made some changes to the Apache source before making && installing. Because the changes were so unique, I bumped the version by a tenth of a point (1.4x). I then remembered all the Apache make conditionals being against 1.3 || 2 - the light went off in my pointy head; the version /I/ installed was != 1.3 || 2, but > 1.3 < 2. D'OH! Well, no harm has /yet/ come of it. The scripts simply emit the error and continue on their merry way. So unless something bombs farther down the road, I'll just accept/expect the errors knowing what they are trying to tell me. :) Thanks again for responding. --Chris > > -- > Stanislav Sedov > ST4096-RIPE >
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