make installkernel help required. (ANSWER... sort of)

[Phil Payne]

On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 11:38, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2004-09-22 11:19, Phil Payne <phil at sal-n-phil.net> wrote:
> > After having another search of the archives and seeing someone suggest
> > they were having make problems in X:
> > (http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2004-September/058300.html)
> >
> > ... I ran the make installkernel outside of X (i.e. in a console) and it
> > works fine.
> >
> > Try to run it in aterm or xterm and you get the "can't shift that many"
> > error.
> >
> > I cannot pretend to know anything about why this is the case.
> 
> This error seems to be caused by some sort of mishandling of nls.alias
> when this command runs:
> 
> : cd /usr/share/nls;  set - `grep "^[a-zA-Z]" /usr/src/etc/nls.alias`;
> : while [ $# -gt 0 ] ;  do  rm -rf "$1";  ln -s "$2" "$1";  shift; shift;
> : done
> : shift: can't shift that many
> : *** Error code 2
> :
> : Stop in /usr/src/etc.
> 
> For this to work correctly, the file /usr/src/etc/nls.alias should
> contain pairs of words, as shown below:
> 
> : # $FreeBSD: src/etc/nls.alias,v 1.5 2003/06/10 01:22:30 ache Exp $
> :
> : POSIX                   C
> : en_US.US-ASCII          C
> 
> Two questions that come to my mind are:
> 
>         1. Have you changed this file in any way?

Nope. Well... not by directly editing.

>         2. What are the locale settings of your environment when this
>            fails, i.e. what does this print?
> 
>                 $ env | grep '^L[AC]' | sort

No output from this command.

Here's the nls.alias file:


gw# cat /usr/src/etc/nls.alias 
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/nls.alias,v 1.5 2003/06/10 01:22:30 ache Exp $

POSIX                   C
en_US.US-ASCII          C


Phil.



> - Giorgos
>