From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 14 10:21:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5C4816A420 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:21:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55C0343D5E for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:21:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from flame.pc (adsl-66-124-231-46.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [66.124.231.46]) (authenticated bits=0) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.5/8.13.5/Debian-3) with ESMTP id k2EAKoSX031762; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:20:56 +0200 Received: by flame.pc (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 28D7130; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 02:20:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 02:20:32 -0800 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Vaaf Message-ID: <20060314102031.GA18726@flame.pc> References: <200602281021.20107.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20060303115508.022b1de0@broadpark.no> <20060303110514.GW11960@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <7.0.1.0.2.20060304174442.022ad158@broadpark.no> <20060304210846.GB46967@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <7.0.1.0.2.20060306172439.0225beb0@broadpark.no> <20060307131714.GI53121@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <7.0.1.0.2.20060311152610.0200afb0@broadpark.no> <20060311144830.GB9892@flame.pc> <7.0.1.0.2.20060314111123.02276240@broadpark.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060314111123.02276240@broadpark.no> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-3.619, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.78, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:21:24 -0000 On 2006-03-14 11:13, Vaaf wrote: >> You haven't replied very usefully to some of my suggestions, at least. >> >> One of them was that with all these scripted trickery you had been >> using, your /usr/include headers may be out of touch with reality. >> >> # Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 18:52:16 +0200 >> # From: Giorgos Keramidas >> # Subject: Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year >> # To: Kristian Vaaf >> # Cc: "Donald J. O'Neill" , >> # freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> # >> # [...] >> # >> # > -------------------------------------------------------------- >> # > >>> stage 2.3: build tools >> # > -------------------------------------------------------------- >> # > cd /usr/src; MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj INSTALL="sh >> # > /usr/src/tools/install.sh" >> # >> # [...] >> # >> # It looks like your system headers may have serious problems. Is this >> # system a clean installation of 5.4-RELEASE or one where you may have >> # updated the system headers manually at some time? >> >> Any idea what a possible & useful answer to that question is? > > Considering I removed all of /usr/src and redownloaded it with cvsup, > I would rule out this possibility. However I don't deny its possibility ... Not exactly. I'm not talking about /usr/src headers, but about /usr/include headers. The latter doesn't get updated until *after* you complete an installworld. If you have somehow messed it up, you won't be able to use this system for builds. Which brings us to the next step: Install a clean 6.0-RELEASE on a new system and build there. You have obviously done something very wrong with the current setup of this system. > It would be real sweet not having to reinstall everything, > even though I can restore all my configuration files in just one command. Configuration files won't cut it. You need a clean *base* system. All of it. Not just a mixture of files that happens to be around.