ET.UTF-8.out: Inappropriate ioctl for device (buildworld RELENG8)

Dimitry Andric dimitry at andric.com
Sat Dec 19 18:16:00 UTC 2009


On 2009-12-19 15:42, Jeronimo Calvo wrote:
> Hi folks, Im getting the following error when building world for
> RELENG_8 using GENERIC.
> Any ideas on how to skip that?
> 
> ===> share/mklocale (all)
> mklocale -o UTF-8.out /usr/src/share/mklocale/UTF-8.src
> mklocale -o am_ET.UTF-8.out /usr/src/share/mklocale/am_ET.UTF-8.src
> am_ET.UTF-8.out: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> *** Error code 1

This problem should only hit you if you have a mklocale binary from
after 8.0-BETA1, and before 8.0-BETA2.

See these threads from some time ago:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-July/thread.html#9871
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-July/thread.html#9406

In short, rebuild mklocale before buildworld:

	cd /usr/src/usr.bin/mklocale
	make
	make install clean


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