Re: make installworld filed with "Required library libdialog.so.9 not found"

On 20 Sep 2023, at 15:02, KIRIYAMA Kazuhiko <kiri@truefc.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 15:56:28 +0900,
> Dimitry Andric wrote:
...
> Fortunately old binaries exist and `cp
> /past_created/usr/src/amd64.amd64/tmp/usr/lib/libdialog.so.9
> /usr/lib' then go forward but stopped at stand/i386/boot2:
> 
> ===> stand/i386/boot2 (install)
> objcopy -S -O binary boot1.out boot1
> objcopy -S -O binary boot2.out boot2.bin
> btxld -v -E 0x2000 -f bin -b /usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/stand/i386/btx/btx/btx -l boot2.ldr  -o boot2.ld -P 1 boot2.bin
> make[6]: exec(btxld) failed (No such file or directory)
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> make[6]: stopped in /usr/src/stand/i386/boot2

As far as I remember, this typically happens when some sources are touched, and it is attempting to rebuild the boot loader binaries at install time. This should normally not happen, as everything has been built during buildworld already. But this problem sometimes occurs when system clocks are out of sync, or when files in the object tree get their dates modified for other reasons.

In this particular case it is trying to re-link btx using btxld, but since that tool is only available during buildworld, it cannot find it. I don't know of a good way to fix this, except maybe to run a buildworld with WITHOUT_CLEAN, e.g.:

make -DWITHOUT_CLEAN -j <num_jobs> buildworld

That should rebuild all things that need rebuilding without doing excessive cleaning, and from there you can attempt to installworld again.

-Dimitry