make rerelease broken?

[Bruce Cran]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:50:24PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
> Scott Long writes:
> > Bruce Cran wrote:
> > > There appears to be a breakage of 'rerelease' - that is, 'release' works, but
> > > 'rerelease' fails in telnetd.   After fixing the Makefile for the gcc -Os 
> > > build, the build failed in /usr/src/contrib/telnet/telnetd/authenc.c and ext.h.
> > > I have since verified that the 'release' succeeds when the 'rerelease' fails. 
> > > I get messages about 'undefined reference to nclearto' - it's not finding the
> > > extern char *nclearto from ext.h.   For some reason, it only fails when doing 
> > > the rerelease.
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Bruce Cran
> > 
> > I saw this too, but couldn't verify that it wasn't due to other problems
> > that I was experiencing.  Mark, can you take a glance at this?  This
> > seems to only happen when 'rerelease' triggers something to be rebuilt.
> 
> I kept on seeing this with rescue/ when I was trying to fix the kerberos5
> and telnet builds.
> 
> There is something dodgy with the crunchgen stuff that leaves behind
> .o files compiled with the wrong -DFOO defines. Result is things that
> don't link properly much later.
> 
> I'd need a complete log to comment further. PLEASE DON'T EMAIL IT!! Please
> put it somewhere for me to fetch. Any diffs to release/Makefile and the
> exact command line used to kick off the build would be useful too.
> 

There's a complete log at http://www.cran.org.uk/rerelease.log

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Bruce Cran