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Date:      Fri, 4 Mar 2016 11:21:33 -0800
From:      Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Chris H <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ERROR: ctfconvert: *.o doesn't have type data to convert
Message-ID:  <20160304192133.GA52454@wkstn-mjohnston.west.isilon.com>
In-Reply-To: <dc199af25088bf15b8d7fd2c8dc857c0@ultimatedns.net>
References:  <dc199af25088bf15b8d7fd2c8dc857c0@ultimatedns.net>

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On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 08:47:44AM -0800, Chris H wrote:
> I've just finished building world, and am building a custom kernel.
> (11-CURRENT svn co from yesterday, and on an i386)
> 
> I see the following message emitted on every lib being processed
> during the build:
> 
> ERROR: ctfconvert: *.o doesn't have type data to convert
> (replace the asterisk (*) with any given library)

This is probably because your kernel config contains
"makeoptions WITH_CTF=1" but not "DEBUG=-g". ctfconvert has nothing to
do because no DWARF info is available, and emits that error as a result.

> 
> Will this result in an unusable kernel? Should I be concerned?

No, it'll work fine. Some parts of DTrace will not work.



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