Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 08:10:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Cc: ken@kdm.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: buildfailure -current on Alpha? Message-ID: <199909240610.IAA48482@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199909231603.JAA68483@vashon.polstra.com> from John Polstra at "Sep 23, 1999 9: 3:44 am"
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As John Polstra wrote ... > In article <199909230713.BAA02743@panzer.kdm.org>, > Kenneth D. Merry <ken@kdm.org> wrote: > > > > I take it you haven't rebuilt world in the past few months? There was a > > change that went in in June, I think, that requires that you reinstall > > ld-elf.so.1 manually before you can buildworld on an Alpha. Kinda > > annoying, I think. > > Annoying but unavoidable. There's no way to override the location of > the dynamic linker at make world time, for security-related reasons. > An important bugfix to the Alpha binutils required an updated dynamic > linker to handle the new relocation type. The new dynamic linker was > committed well before the binutils changes that required it. But > still it can bite people who aren't tracking -current very closely. > That's life in currentland. The ld-elf.so.1 trick was indeed the problem. My previous build was indeed somewhere in June. Thanks for your suggestion. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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