Compiling perl5.8.5 fails in chroot'ed environment

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 09:44:00PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to setup a diskless client, so I have created  a directory
> /usr/diskless and installed FreeBSD 5.3 into it. I then unpacked
> ports.tgz from the release and cvsup'ed yesterday.
> 
> If I chroot into /usr/diskless and try to compile perl5.8 I get the
> following error:
> 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/work/perl-5.8.5 ./miniperl -Ilib
> -e 'use AutoSplit;  autosplit_lib_modules(@ARGV)' lib/*/*.pm
> make lib/re.pm
> "makefile", line 915: Need an operator
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/work/perl-5.8.5.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8.
> 
> It only fails in the chroot'ed environment, even though the chroot has a 
> full bootable base. I have successfully installed lynx, bash, libiconv, 
> libtool and gettext in this environment.
> 
> How do I correct this?

Do you have devfs mounted in the chroot?

Kris
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