HEADSUP: Something has gone south with -current

[Steve Kargl]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 03:30:19PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 03:06:22PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > 
> > make core dumps.
> > devd core dumps.
> > init core dumps.
> > cc   core dumps.  
> > c++  core dumps.
> > 
> > Something seems to be broken.
> > 
> 
> Further investigation,
> as core dumps.
> cpp core dumps.
> /rescue/vi core dumps.
> 
> All of these programs are statically linked.  Note, ar and ranlib
> have static linkage, and appear to still work but these were not
> replaced by the failing 'make installworld'.
> 
> Ah, so if I go into /usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/ar, this ar
> is static and not stripped and works!  But, if I do
> 
> cp ar ar.new
> strip ar
> ./ar
> 
> This ar core dumps.  So, stripping static binaries seems to 
> break the binary.
> 

Yep, definitely, a problem with stripping static binaries.

I copied both init and devd from /usr/obj to /sbin without
stripping the binaries.  System rebooted as expected.

-- 
Steve