Inability to build FreeBSD-current amd64

[Niclas Zeising]

On 2019-05-16 09:36, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> from Niclas Zeising:
> 
>> I run a build WITH_CLANG_EXTRAS, and that worked, on current, last weekend, if
>> that's what you're asking about.
>   
>> This won't take away the need for llvm ports in certain ports builds, however,
>> such as firefox and mesa.
> 
> So now I wonder why I failed four times straight building current.  One definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result.
> 
> Maybe the build host, 11.1-STABLE from July 30, 2017, was too old?  I wouldn't have thought it was too old.
> 
> I could also try an old current host from August 2, 2017, or try to build 12-STABLE from my 11.1-STABLE host.  Would I do better to build amd64 or i386 from amd64 host?  I presently have no FreeBSD i386 installation, only amd64.
> 

That could be that the toolchain on 11.1 stable is too old to build 
current.  If you've posted the error you're getting, I've missed it, 
however.
Regards
-- 
Niclas