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From: geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer)
Subject: Re: Help w/cnews under bsdi gamma 4
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Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 20:31:02 GMT
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William Petrisko:
>Right now, my doit.bin fails right after "building programs", with a
>"malformed input file (not rel or archive)" ... i've rebuilt this
>archive by hand and it still craps out.

I think it's caused by the usual problems with BSDI's /bin/sh:  doit.bin
is probably passing ld a null argument.  You could edit doit.bin by hand
(look for pairs of double quotes [""]) or install bash as /bin/sh (and
rerun build to regenerate doit.bin).
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