What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system

[af300wsm at gmail.com]

On Feb 23, 2009 10:43am, Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:15:16AM +0000, af300wsm at gmail.com wrote:

> > Hi,

> >

> > My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD

> > 7.0-p10 (I believe I just did the csup last night). It gets to this  
> point

> > and then stops with this error:

> >

> > touch gtype-desc.h

> > touch: No such file or directory



> The file gtype-desc.h doesn't exist on my 7.1 system.

> I think that this means that the 'touch' binary is missing. See below.

I had over looked that possibility but I agree now that you mention it  
especially in light of reading your further comments below.




> Touch should never complain about missing files, because one of its

> purposes is to create files that don't exist. So it is probably the

> 'touch' binary itself is missing. Try 'which touch'. It should report

> '/usr/bin/touch'. If it doesn't, touch is MIA.



> It might be saved in the lost+found directory of the partition that

> holds /usr/bin.



> The easiest way to get it back is to just build touch. Or copy it from

> the install/live-cd.

I'ma little unclear about how to build individual programs from within the  
source tree. Can you please explain how I'd do this?

Thanks,
Andy