Alpha is seriously broken

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 03:17:46PM -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 08:48:45PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> 
> > My sincere sympathies to Ken.
> 
> Since at least of you seem so (morbidly?) interested...  :-)
> 
> This is in progress on beast at the moment, dunno if it'll work out
> yet but ...
> 
> 	- copied /sbin/init.bak to /sbin/init
> 	- created /h/kensmith (after cleaning the crash dumps out
> 	  of /h/crash...)
> 	- copied the base directory for 5.2.1 from ftp-master,
> 	  unpacked it in /h/kensmith
> 	- copied /usr/src from beast to /h/kensmith/usr/src
> 	- backed out latest change to crt1.c as suggested
> 	- chroot to /h/kensmith
> 	- mount -t devfs devfs /dev
> 	- cd usr/src
> 	- make buildworld
> 
> If that succeeds I'll arrange for the results to look like beast's
> real /usr/obj, copy the make executable from /h/kensmith/usr/bin
> to /usr/bin, and give 'make installworld' in beast's /usr/src a try.
> 
> Thoughts?  Bets?  More sympathies?
> 
It will succeed.  Here's what I'd do:

After chroot buildworld succeeds (was a very good idea to install to
chroot!), try some statically linked binary from /h/kensmith, e.g.,
/h/kensmith/usr/obj/usr.bin/make/make to find that it now works.  In
this case, the crt1.c change was the culprit, and we really want to
reinstall beast using these sources -- with mount_nullfs(8) mount
/h/kensmith/usr/src to /usr/src and /h/kensmith/usr/obj to /usr/obj,
and then do an installworld into /.  After that, unmount nulled
/usr/src and /usr/obj, back out the crt1.c change from /usr/src,
and run /root/buildworld.sh, or just let cron(8) handle this.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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