On 4/7/20 11:32 PM, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> Has anyone else seen this error?
>
> I tried to build a kernel yesterday, but the build failed while compiling
> modules because ctfconvert was not found.
>
> I've had WITH_CTF=no in my src.conf for years, so neither ctfconvert nor
> ctfmerge were installed.
>
> OK, I'll just go to the source dirctories and build and install.
>
> Nope. I got this error:
> make: exec(ctfconvert) failed (No such file or directory)
> and the build failed.
>
> WTF? ctfconvert requires ctfconvert to build? That makes no sense and is
> a real chicken-and-egg problem if I've ever seen one.
>
> I ended up creating /usr/bin/ctf{convert,merge} shell scripts which simply
> did exit 0. That allowed me to finally compile and install the utilities.
>
> Now I'm forced to have WITH_CTF=yes in my src.conf. No big deal.
>
> Still, it seems like the change to the make infrastructure which assumed
> that cft{convert,merge} are always installed was rather premature.
The change is that GENERIC has 'makeoptions WITH_CTF=yes'. If you build a
kernel without that, you shouldn't need to have ctfconvert installed. This
does mean you need to use a custom kernel instead of GENERIC.
--
John Baldwin
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