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From: laux@ifk-mp.uni-kiel.dbp.de (Thorsten Laux)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [NetBSD-0.8] update to NetBSD-current
Date: 15 Jul 1993 14:22:16 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Kiel, Germany
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n62274@pbhrzx.uni-paderborn.de () writes:


>Hello NetBSD People,

>in fact crond and some other facts hang up my NetBSD-0.8a System some times,
>I'm trying to upgrade to NetBSD-current. I've read every faq i could 
>get. Even followed the instructions in README.magic , still using the
>original version of gcc.

>But for unknown reasons I can't build libc.a , and therefore no other
>current stuff. The bootblocks and the kernel (netbsd) compile well.
>When I boot /netbsd and do make depend , make all in /usr/src/lib ,
>the box hangs at :

>building standard libc.a
>nm: bt_debug.o no name list
>nm: bt_debug.o no name list
>tsort: cycle in data
>tsort: clnt_udp.o
>tsort: pmap_ ... ( somewhat )

>now the System shows a load of 0.97 and hangs at this point, till
>interrupt by CTRL-C .
>No libc.a at all.

>I've tried this with a version of ar , tsort and nm build with the
>new /usr/include tree, as well as with the old /usr/include .

>Has anyone any idea what's happenig there ?

I've had the same problem. Tsort seems to be broken. I replaced it
with

#!/bin/sh
rsh w1 tsort

and libc.a was built alright.


By the way, tn3270 doesn't build either (or it didn't 2 weeks ago).


Thorsten
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        Thorsten Laux, Insitut fuer Kernphysik, Mathematische Physik
                   email: laux@ifk-mp.uni-kiel.d400.de