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Date:      Mon, 22 Sep 1997 09:25:46 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Brad Hendrickse <bradh@iafrica.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Make world: error code 140
Message-ID:  <19970922092546.21646@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970922003204.3738A-100000@nscfw.iafrica.com>; from Brad Hendrickse on Mon, Sep 22, 1997 at 12:35:55AM %2B0200
References:  <Pine.OSF.3.96.970918235958.26415A-100000@emily.oit.umass.edu> <Pine.BSF.3.96.970922003204.3738A-100000@nscfw.iafrica.com>

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On Mon, Sep 22, 1997 at 12:35:55AM +0200, Brad Hendrickse wrote:
>
>> uudecode < /usr/src/share/tabset/zenith29.uu
>> ===> share termcap
>> ex - /usr/src/share/termcap/termcap.src <
>> /usr/src/share/termcap/reorder > /dev/null (That's not how it's
>> wrapped. This tries to be on one line.)
>> Bad system call - core dumped
>> ***Error code 140
>  Hi there, the problem mailed by Greg below is the same problem I'm
> having. I was awaiting a reply to Greg's message, but thus far have not
> noticed a reply to him. Possibly the reply was mailed directly to him.
> I've tried running:
>
> ex - /usr/src/share/termcap/termcap.src < /usr/src/share/termcap/reorder >
> /dev/null
>
>  which then runs fine. Thus far it's happened with -CURRENT and
> 970807-SNAP, AFAIK.

Yes, I've had exactly this problem, and I've also noticed that it
doesn't happen if you do it directly in the termcap directory.  It
seems to be a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem.  In my case, I was
upgrading an old (December 1996) version of 3.0-CURRENT.

The 'bad system call' signal means that the program has issued a
system call that the kernel doesn't understand.  In many cases, this
is the result of a bug in the program, but in this case it's because
the old kernel doesn't understand the new system call.

The solution I found was to build and install a kernel, then restart
the 'make world' with -DNOCLEAN (to speed things up a bit).

Greg



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