installworld strangeness

[David Noel]

On 11/22/12, Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com> wrote:
> --On November 22, 2012 7:14:35 AM -0600 David Noel <david.i.noel at gmail.com>
>
> wrote:
>
>> Updating from 8.2 to 8.3 I'm running into the following:
>>
>> ===> include (install)
>> creating osreldate.h from newvers.sh
>> dirname: not found
>> *** Error code 127
>>
>> Stop in /usr/src/include.
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> Stop in /usr/src.
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> Stop in /usr/src.
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> Stop in /usr/src.
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> Stop in /usr/src.
>>
>> Has anyone managed to work past this error message?
>
> I just upgraded a system from 8.2 to 8.3 without a problem.  World build
> find as did kernel.
>
> It sounds like you're missing source files.
>
> Try fetching the source from svn and starting over.
>
> svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.3/ /usr/src
>
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I pulled with `svn co https://svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org/base/releng/8.3
/usr/src`, so everything should be in order there.