btxld not found

[Kyle Evans]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 3:24 AM Nick Hibma <nick at van-laarhoven.org> wrote:
>
> >> Could anyone explain to me what I am doing wrong? make installworld fails each time with the following error
> >>
> >> ===> stand/i386/libi386 (install)
> >> ===> stand/i386/loader_4th (install)
> >> strip -R .comment -R .note -o loader_4th.bin loader_4th.sym
> >> btxld -v -f aout -e 0x200000 -o loader_4th -l /usr/obj/usr/src/i386.i386/stand/i386/btx/btxldr/btxldr  -b /usr/obj/usr/src/i386.i386/stand/i386/btx/btx/btx loader_4th.bin
> >> make[6]: exec(btxld) failed (No such file or directory)
> >> *** Error code 1
> >>
> >> This is with source of last week. I had this problem before (from old sources) and fixed it by specifying the full path to btxld in the stand/i386/*/Makefile.
> >
> > Yes, this is most likely your clock(s) being off.  At installworld time,
> > it should *not* start rebuilding your loader.
> >
> > Usually this happens if you build on one machine, and install on
> > another, while the install machine's time is behind the build machine's
> > time.  But it can also happens on one machine, for instance if you
> > start in single user mode, and the clock is not yet synchronized.
> >
> > -Dimitry
> >
> Dimitry,
>
> My VirtualBox VMs do have a tendency to lag when I am not using them for a while. I've adjusted time and started ntpd. In the past that would not fix the time lag permanently.
>
> I'll do a fresh buildworld and see whether that completes.
>

I mentioned this elsewhere, but I've opened a review in the past ~12
hours that should make sure that stand/ dependencies are properly
ordered: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23411 -> this should also
alleviate the condition if we're building this stuff in parallel.

Thanks,

Kyle Evans