make installworld Error code 64

[Ruben de Groot]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 12:22:42PM -0700, Rick Updegrove typed:
> Hi,
> 
> I am a long time OpenBSD user trying FreeBSD.  I am attempting to upgrade my
> system from FreeBSD RELEASE 4.7 to "STABLE"
> 
> This is my first post to this list so please be gentle : )
> 
> I followed
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
> 
> But when I get to "21.4.9 Install the New System Binaries"  This happens:
> 
> root at smeagol /usr/src # make installworld
> mkdir -p /tmp/install.16560
> for prog in [ awk cap_mkdb cat chflags chmod chown  date echo egrep find
> grep  ln make makewhatis mkdir mtree mv perl pwd_mkdb rm sed sh sysctl  test
> true uname wc zic; do  cp `which $prog` /tmp/install.16560;  done
> usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-pv] src target
>        cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-pv] src1 ... srcN directory
> *** Error code 64
> 
> Stop in /usr/src.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/src.
> root at smeagol /usr/src #
> 
> I am guessing that "for prog in [" can't find what its looking for?
> Where is the closing "]" ?
> What dir is "cp" looking in?
> Am I am even close?

The "[" is not an opening bracket, it's a real program.
Try:

ln /bin/test /bin/[

and rerun make installworld.

cheers,
Ruben

> 
> 
> More (hopefully useful info)
> 
> As you can see I booted to the new kernel sucessfully...
> 
> root at smeagol /usr/src # uname -a
> FreeBSD smeagol.purgatory 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0: Sun Apr 20
> 17:09:30 PDT 2003     root at smeagol.purgatory:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> i386
> 
> All the files appear to be in place?
> 
> root at smeagol /usr/src # ls -la
> total 146k
> drwxr-xr-x  21 root     wheel         512 Apr 20 14:07 ./
> drwxr-xr-x  18 root     wheel         512 Apr 20 14:09 ../
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     wheel        4.6k Sep  5  1999 COPYRIGHT
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     wheel        8.3k Apr 16 02:59 Makefile
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     wheel         23k Apr  6 12:54 Makefile.inc1
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     wheel        9.5k Aug 27  1999 Makefile.upgrade
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     wheel        2.6k Apr 26  2002 README
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     wheel         41k Apr  3 22:25 UPDATING
> drwxr-xr-x  32 root     wheel         512 Apr 20 13:52 bin/
> drwxr-xr-x  46 root     wheel        1.0k Apr 20 13:57 contrib/
> drwxr-xr-x   7 root     wheel         512 Apr 20 13:59 crypto/
> drwxr-xr-x  14 root     wheel        2.0k Apr 20 13:59 etc/
> drwxr-xr-x  41 root     wheel        1.0k Apr 20 14:00 games/
> drwxr-xr-x   6 root     wheel         512 Apr 20 14:01 gnu/
> drwxr-xr-x   6 root     wheel        1.5k Apr 20 14:01 include/
> drwxr-xr-x   7 root     wheel         512 Apr 20 14:01 kerberos5/
> drwxr-xr-x   8 root     wheel         512 Apr 20 14:01 kerberosIV/
> drwxr-xr-x  57 root     wheel        1.5k Apr 20 14:02 lib/
> drwxr-xr-x  35 root     wheel        1.0k Apr 20 14:02 libexec/
> drwxr-xr-x  10 root     wheel         512 Apr 20 14:02 release/
> drwxr-xr-x  81 root     wheel        1.5k Apr 20 14:02 sbin/
> drwxr-xr-x   6 root     wheel         512 Apr 20 14:03 secure/
> drwxr-xr-x  23 root     wheel         512 Apr 20 14:03 share/
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     wheel        3.7k Apr 20 13:51 stable-supfile
> drwxr-xr-x  49 root     wheel        1.0k Apr 20 14:06 sys/
> drwxr-xr-x   8 root     wheel         512 Apr 20 14:06 tools/
> drwxr-xr-x 219 root     wheel        3.5k Apr 20 14:07 usr.bin/
> drwxr-xr-x 156 root     wheel        3.0k Apr 20 14:08 usr.sbin/
> 
> 
> I have been googling but this is a lot of error message to google for...
> any hints would be greatly appreciated.
> 
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