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From: cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Compiling libc from NetBSD / FAQ
Date: 25 Jul 93 00:10:34
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: gt1679c@prism.gatech.EDU's message of 25 Jul 93 07:04:28 GMT

In article <106211@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt1679c@prism.gatech.EDU (scott) writes:
>I have gotten the NetBSD-current release and am having a problem
>building libc.  tsort seems to go into an endless loop when it 
>tries to create the archive.  Someone mentioned that they saw this
>brought up earlier, but I couldn't find anything.

yup, lots of people mentioned it, and i fixed it.  8-)

two choices:
	(1) "the traditional" -- say "make obj" in your libc directory,
		and it will work.
	(2) get and install the latest version of make from netbsd-current.
		it has the fix.





chris
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Chris G. Demetriou                                   cgd@cs.berkeley.edu

                     so many bugs, so little time.