Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 20:48:45 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr@home.net> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, marcel@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem building -current (gnu/usr.bin/binutils/doc) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912192031250.6854-100000@alphplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <199912150353.WAA15571@cc158233-a.catv1.md.home.com>
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On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Stephen J. Roznowski wrote: >... > patch -b .orig < /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/doc/inc-hist.diff > patch: **** can't find file `.orig' : No such file or directory > *** Error code 2 > I was able to track this problem down to having ports/patch installed > (/usr/local/bin/patch) and my build was picking up this version of patch > vice the /usr/bin/patch one.... Perhaps "make buildworld" should specify > a PATH variable? It does, but since patch(1) is no longer a build-tool, an old version of patch(1) in $PATH is found instead of a tool in $STRICTTMPPATH. "-b .orig" is used to avoid pollution in the environment (I use SIMPLE_BACKUP_PREFIX="~"). It might be better to kill most of the environment. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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