make buildkernel for GENERIC 9-STABLE just hangs, no error (was svn commit: r249549 - in stable/9/sys: amd64/conf i386/conf)

[Olav Grønås Gjerde]

I have to admit that I didn't wait for an hour, as buildkernel usually
complete within 30 minutes on my system. I just tried to build the kernel
on another very similar system, no problems there. I forgot to mention that
I tried to upgrade from an 8-STABLE from last summer directly to the latest
9-STABLE. Most likely its just something very wrong with my setup and a
complete reinstallation would probably be a good idea.
Thanks for your help.


On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Dimitry Andric <dimitry at andric.com> wrote:

> On Apr 17, 2013, at 17:41, Pedro Giffuni <pfg at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On 04/17/13 03:29, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> >> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 04:09:28PM +0000, Brooks Davis wrote:
> >>> Author: brooks
> >>> Date: Tue Apr 16 16:09:27 2013
> >>> New Revision: 249549
> >>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/249549
> >>>
> >>> Log:
> >>>   MFC (much delayed) 234504:
> >>>      Enable DTrace hooks in GENERIC.
> >>>
> >>> Modified:
> >>>   stable/9/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC
> >>>   stable/9/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
> >>> Directory Properties:
> >>>   stable/9/sys/   (props changed)
> >>>
> >>> ...
> >> And here come the complaints, which warrant responses from key folks who
> >> are in the know:
> >>
> >>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-April/073132.html
> >>
> >
> > It looks like 9 days ago there was a change (r249243) that fixed
> > issues on the userland ctf utilities, so you have to update your
> > userland too if it's not recent (make buildworld works fine).
>
> That was only a fix for certain DWARF attributes emitted by clang and/or
> newer gcc's, which would cause ctfmerge to error out.
>
> If ctfmerge is hanging, that is almost certainly another problem.  That
> is, if it is really hanging, isn't it just very slow, maybe?  What
> happens if the original poster lets it run for e.g. an hour?
>
>