Re: set : illegal option -o pipefail error while trying to upgrade pkg.

On Sat, Jan 27, 2024, 5:12 PM Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I'm trying to upgrade as much as I can FreeBSD 10.4 because it is the only
> one version that can compile some of the old arm 32 bit code I need to use
> for one of my projects. As you already know,packages don't work at all,but
> ports almost work. I was trying to install xfce4 from ports,but the
> compilation stopped when it didn't accept this file :
>
>
> http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/trousers-0.3.14.tar.gz
>
>
> at this point,I decided to upgrade the system with :
>
>
> # freebsd-update fetch
> # freebsd-update install
>
>
> and the ports tree with :
>
>
> # portsnap fetch extract
> # portsnap fetch update
>
>
> At this point it asked me to update pkg,so I did :
>
>
> # cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg
> # make
>
>
> but unfortunately I got this error that I'm not able to fix :
>
>
> set : illegal option -o pipefail
>
>
> and I can't do anything anymore. I'm stuck here. Can someone help me to
> fix it ? thanks.
>

Save a copy of /bin/sh. Check out stable/13 (or 12 if the following fails).
Cd to src/bin/sh. Type make all. You may need -m /path/to/src/share/mk if
make complains. Create a test area, I'll call it /destdir. Also mkdir
/destdir/bin too. Then make install  DESTDIR=/destdir. You may need to do
this as root. Ignore the failures for the man pages and maybe tests. You
should have a /destdir/bin/sh. See if it runs. If so copy it to /bin and
try the upgrade again.

I think 12 has pipefail. I dont think 11 does. 13 definitely has it. The
error message is from the shell.

Warner