release.sh: sh: head: not found \n Unable to determine linker type from LD=ld

[Alastair Hogge]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017, at 21:00, Guy Yur wrote:
> On 23 June 2017 at 15:36, Alastair Hogge <agh at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My 12.0-CURRENT r320259 host is unable to complete a release.sh build of
> > a generic world:
> >
> > [...]
> > =/tmp/install.hb5C6cay  PATH_LOCALE=/tmp/install.hb5C6cay/locale rm -rf
> > /tmp/install.hb5C6cay
> > sh: head: not found
> > make[4]: "/usr/src/share/mk/bsd.linker.mk" line 42: Unable to determine
> > linker type from LD=ld
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > ...
> >
> > To good health,
> > Alastair
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I got the same error with r320258.
> Is it because "head" is not part of the bootstrap tools?
> 
> I was able to continue by replacing "| head 1" with "| sed -n 1p" in
> _ld_version!=   ${${ld}} --version 2>/dev/null | head -n 1 || echo none
> 
> head is not in /tmp/install.RANDOMVALUES but sed is.

Great, that worked, thanks :-)