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

# set -o pipefail
set : variable name must begin with a letter.

On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 5:43 AM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Jan 27, 2024, 5:54 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Jan 27, 2024, 5:12 PM Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com>
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>>> Hello.
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>>> 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 :
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>>> http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/trousers-0.3.14.tar.gz
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>>> at this point,I decided to upgrade the system with :
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>>> # freebsd-update fetch
>>> # freebsd-update install
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>>> and the ports tree with :
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>>>
>>> # portsnap fetch extract
>>> # portsnap fetch update
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>>> At this point it asked me to update pkg,so I did :
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>>> # cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg
>>> # make
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>>>
>>> but unfortunately I got this error that I'm not able to fix :
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>>> set : illegal option -o pipefail
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>>>
>>> and I can't do anything anymore. I'm stuck here. Can someone help me to
>>> fix it ? thanks.
>>>
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>> 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.
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>> I think 12 has pipefail. I dont think 11 does. 13 definitely has it. The
>> error message is from the shell.
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> The command "set -o pipefail" is how you'll know if it will work.... or
> stands a good chance of working.
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> Warner
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-- 
Mario.