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Subject: Re: error in buildworld.
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michael Corleone wrote:
> hi i received this error when im about to do a buildworld after upgrading my src and ports collection.
> im running 4.8-RELEASE, heres the logs of the errors:
> i hope anyone can explain what and where is the the line that causes the error, thanks all.
>  
> 
> ===> bin/ln
> ===> bin/ls
> cc -O -pipe  -DCOLORLS -Wall -Wformat     -static -o ls cmp.o ls.o print.o util.o -lm -ltermcap
> /usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/lib/libtermcap.a: could not read symbols: Malformed archive

The line that you pasted is the one causing the error. With the limited 
information you provided, I would say that you need to either run make 
cleandir (two times) in /usr/src and delete /usr/src/obj, or to be safe, 
cd /usr/src && mrm -rf *
After that, you'll have to run cvsup again, then attempt the make 
buildworld again.

If that doesn't work, please include the following info:
Hardware, the lines in your cvsup file that say tag=

--Charlie