buildworld fails

[Marcus Reid]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 01:04:33AM +0100, Aron H?kanson wrote:
> S?n 2003-11-16 klockan 21.12 skrev Peter Ulrich Kruppa:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I have a problem with today's sources.
> > 
> > At my first try make buildworld and make kernel worked all-right
> > and the new kernel could be booted, so I didn't check closely and
> > made installworld. This failed *somewhere* , and now I am left
> > with a defect system: no internet connection, no XFree86 and
> > perhaps some more things I haven't found yet.
> > 
> > Next I deleted /usr/obj/usr and /usr/src and cvsupped fresh
> > sources (via a a basic 4.8 -RELEASE I have got on the same
> > machine), but now buildworld fails very soon with
> ...
> 
> > sh /usr/src/tools/install.sh -C -o root -g wheel -m 444   libegacy.a /usr/obj/us
> > r/src/i386/legacy/usr/lib
> > *** Signal 11
> 
> There is a problem with the old install program when you make the
> installworld with the new sources. You can solve this by installing the
> new install program from the obj-directory. Just copy the
> /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.bin/xinstall/xinstall to /usr/bin/install (ev. a
> chmod 555 too) and it should work.

If you don't already have a binary to work with, do a:

  cd /usr/src/usr.bin/xinstall
  make all

Then copy the resulting xinstall binary over /usr/bin/install.

Marcus

> Aron