build failures after stdlib update

Garrett Cooper yanefbsd at gmail.com
Sat Mar 13 20:50:15 UTC 2010


On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Pegasus Mc Cleaft <ken at mthelicon.com> wrote:
> Hello Current,
>
>        I am wondering if someone could help me please.
>
>        I built the 9.0-current kernel and world while there was still a bug in
> the updated strlen(). Unfortunately this rendered the machine unbootable as
> gptzfsloader crashed and would just echo an endless stream of spaces across
> the screen. After booting off another drive and reverting the gptzfsboot to
> the .old version, I was able to being the machine back to life, but
> applications were dieing left and right (Signal 10). I used dgb to find the
> offending library /lib/libc.so.7 and had a copy of the library from 3 days
> ago. After reverting that library, I was able to start all my applications OK
> and the machine is working..
>
>        However.....
>
>        I am not able to build the latest world (I havent tried kernel yet).
> Whenever I start  gengtype dies with a signal 10.  I have tried to use dgb to
> examine the core file, but it gives me nonsense answers so I am not able to
> locate what library it might be trying to use. I have also tried to blow away
> the /usr/src and /usr/obj directories and recreate them from svn just incase
> there was something hanging on from the previous build.
>
>        Can anyone give me advice on how to track this problem down or fix it? I
> suspect I still have a lib that still trying to use the broken libc.so.7 or
> something else depended on it, but I am not sure..

    Some of the items in this commit may be causing the bad juju
you're seeing on the screen:

http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/205021

    Please try reverting that and see how things go.
Thanks!
-Garrett


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