cvsup broken on amd64?

Matt sendtomatt at gmail.com
Fri Sep 9 17:57:25 UTC 2011


On 09/08/11 14:52, b. f. wrote:
>> I have an Atom 330 with 9.0-BETA2/amd64 installed.
>>
>> I did a pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui at first after installation.
>> Using cvsup, resulted in a core dump (illegal instruction).
>>
>> I then removed all ports, and installed cvsup-without-gui from source.
>> Started cvsup... core dump again.
>>
>> I then got the cvsup binary from a FreeBSD 8 i386 system, installed
>> compat8x and also copied the missing libutil.so.8 from FreeBSD/i386
>> and cvsuped the source (8.2-STABLE i386 cvsup worked).
>>
>> Then I rebuilt world, kernel (removed all debugging options from GENERIC).
>>
>> Then I removed all ports once more and reinstalled cvsup-without-gui
>> from ports once more.
>>
>> And now again...
> It may be broken -- I seem to recall some earlier complaints about
> problems on one of the list.  But is there a reason why you are
> attempting to use it, when /usr/bin/csup is available, and is
> generally thought to be superior?
>
>
> b.
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Does cvsup work for anyone? At what point should cvsup just be a symlink 
to csup?


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