cap_mkdb: illegal option -i. upgrade 5.4->6.1

rvenne at dental-on-line.fr rvenne at dental-on-line.fr
Wed Sep 13 01:20:39 PDT 2006


Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 04:52:32PM +0200, rvenne at dental-on-line.fr wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi list
>>
>>I'm upgrading 5.4 p18 to 6.1 p6.
>>
>>here's my tag: RELENG_6_1
>>
>>I did:
>>make update
>>make cleanworld
>>make buildworld
>>
>>which gives following issue:
>>
>>cap_mkdb: illegal option -i
>>
>>It seems a known problem on netbsd during buildworld compilation. here's 
>>the solution I'm tring:
>>
>>cd /usr/src/usr.bin/cap_mkdb
>>make clean
>>make
>>make install
>>
>>and I'm building world again.
>>
>>is that a known problem on freebsd?
>>
>>    
>>
>This shouldn't happen.  The buildworld target detects the current
>version of your system, and bootstraps cap_mkdb if necessary:
>
>: .if ${BOOTSTRAPPING} < 600015
>: _cap_mkdb=      usr.bin/cap_mkdb
>: .endif
>
>BOOTSTRAPPING is defined as follows:
>
>: .if !defined(OSRELDATE)
>: .if exists(/usr/include/osreldate.h)
>: OSRELDATE!=     awk '/^\#define[[:space:]]*__FreeBSD_version/ { print $$3 }' \
>:                 /usr/include/osreldate.h
>: .else
>: OSRELDATE=      0
>: .endif
>
>That is, it's the value of __FreeBSD_version as defined in
>/usr/include/osreldate.h.  If your /usr/include/osreldate.h
>is lying about the current version, e.g. if you accidentally
>installed the new headers, then you can force it to zero,
>such as:
>
>	make buildworld OSRELDATE=0
>
>
>Cheers,
>  
>
I'm pretty sure about what's happing

i'd propably built my world twice...or something like that. anyway, 
building

cap_mkdb before the world resolved the issue. 

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Richard VENNE
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