Can't do an "make installworld"

Paul Hoffman phoffman at proper.com
Wed Jul 18 15:37:09 UTC 2007


At 4:12 PM +1200 7/18/07, Jonathan Chen wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 03:49:02PM -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>>  At 5:38 PM -0500 7/17/07, Shaun Meyer wrote:
>>  >On Tue, July 17, 2007 4:14 pm, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>>  >> Any help would be appreciated here. I'm on a clean 6.1-RELEASE sysem.
>>  >> I created /home/pxe. I cd'd to /usr/src. I gave 'make installworld
>>  >> DESTDIR=/home/pxe'. It ends with:
>>  >> . . .
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >Worked fine on my 6.2 just now.
>>
>>  Interestingly, after I sent this, I tried it on a 6.0 system, and had
>>  the same problem (with fewer files):
>>
>>  --------------------------------------------------------------
>>  >>> Installing everything
>>  --------------------------------------------------------------
>>  cd /usr/src; make -f Makefile.inc1 install
>>  ===> share/info (install)
>>  ===> include (install)
>>  creating osreldate.h from newvers.sh
>>  touch: not found
>>  *** Error code 127
>
>This is commonly caused by a bad date. Check the system time.

That doesn't seem to be it. The system time is fine, and none of the 
files in /usr/src/include have "funny" times (either in the future or 
near 1970).

Any other clues? Does 'make installworld DESTDIR=/home/something' 
work for other people running 6.1-RELEASE?


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