/dev/null: No such file or directory

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 09:21:17AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net> (from Mon, 18 Sep  
> 2006 21:25:30 -0500):
> 
> >On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 11:08:42PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >>
> >>I have linux_base-fc-4_8 installed, clean install, and the two sysctl
> >>referred to in /usr/ports/UPDATING haven't been changed from the default:
> >>
> >># sysctl -a | grep compat.linux.osname
> >>compat.linux.osname: Linux
> >># sysctl -a | grep compat.linux.osrelease
> >>compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2
> >>
> >>But, when I try to run configure from a chroot environment, I get:
> >>
> >>../gcc-4.0.3/configure: line 533: /dev/null: No such file or directory
> >>
> >>I've searched through /usr/ports/UPDATING, but am not finding anything
> >>except for the section on "remove /compat/linux completely", which I've
> >>done ...
> >>
> >>So, either the port isn't creating something, or I'm missing something in
> >>the UPDATING doc :(
> >
> >You must have devfs containing at least null and zero mounted in your
> >chroot.
> 
> Right. Additionally I suggest to use a linux_dist-gento-* port if you  
> want to do cross-development. The default linux_base port only  
> contains stuff to run the programs in the ports collection (and maybe  
> a little bit more). To compile the stuff to test the linuxolator in  
> -current I use linux_dist-gento-stage3. You should mount devfs,  
> linprovfs and maybe linsysfs in the chroot.

What happened to the linux_devtools port (which is supposed to take
care of this) - was it never updated to parity with linux_base?

Kris
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