buildworld fails immediately

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 07:03:15PM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote:
> I am trying to build RELENG_6.  I receive the following errors.
> 
> [root at s4cr /usr/src]# make buildworld
> "/dev/null", line 4: Need an operator
> "/dev/null", line 6: Need an operator
> "/dev/null", line 8: Need an operator
> "/dev/null", line 9: Need an operator
> "/dev/null", line 11: Need an operator
> "/dev/null", line 12: Need an operator
> "/dev/null", line 13: Need an operator
> "/dev/null", line 15: Need an operator
> "/dev/null", line 16: Need an operator
> "/dev/null", line 18: Need an operator
> 
> 
> I figured I got a partial update or something.  Re-supping didn't help. 
>    I am building on 6.2-RELEASE inside a jail.  Jails are new for me so 
> maybe I missed something there.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
Make sure /dev/null inside a jail is a device and not a plain file.
If the latter, you probably forgot to mount devfs onto a jail's /dev.


Cheers,
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Ruslan Ermilov
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