'make installworld' can't find /usr/bin/touch?

[Ken Smith]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 05:39:18PM -0400, James Snow wrote:

> The error I see:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> Installing everything..
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> cd /usr/src; make -f Makefile.inc1 install
> ===> share/info
> ===> include
> creating osreldate.h from newvers.sh
> touch: not found
> *** Error code 127
> 
> The system is an Ultra 10 running 5.2.1-R, and I'm trying to
> upgrade it to 5.2.1-R-p5. The first time this happened I did
> an 'rm -rf /usr/src /usr/obj' and cvsup'd again from
> scratch, but I see the same error.
> 
> 'which touch' reports the existance of /usr/bin/touch and it
> works just fine. 
> 
> I'm kind of stumped. I figure I'm doing something stupid
> since this is my first FreeBSD-sparc64 box. Is the process
> for upgrading under 5.x on the sparc still:
> 
> make buildworld
> make buildkernel
> make installkernel
> make installworld
> mergemaster
> 
> or am I missing a step?

Try checking the current date/time your computer thinks it has.
I've had these errors and it turned out the computer thought
the date was *really* outrageous.

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