You haven't replied very usefully to some of my suggestions, at least. One of them was that with all these scripted trickery you had been using, your /usr/include headers may be out of touch with reality. # Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 18:52:16 +0200 # From: Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # Subject: Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year # To: Kristian Vaaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # Cc: "Donald J. O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # freebsd-questions@freebsd.org # # [...] # # > -------------------------------------------------------------- # > >>> stage 2.3: build tools # > -------------------------------------------------------------- # > cd /usr/src; MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj INSTALL="sh # > /usr/src/tools/install.sh" # # [...] # # It looks like your system headers may have serious problems. Is this # system a clean installation of 5.4-RELEASE or one where you may have # updated the system headers manually at some time? Any idea what a possible & useful answer to that question is?
Considering I removed all of /usr/src and redownloaded it with cvsup, I would rule out this possibility. However I don't deny its possibility ...
> But then, what can it be? > Is it time for the list to admit "there's nothing we can do"? No. It's time for you to start actually taking some of the suggestions that you have missed, *and* replying to the questions that have been unanswered (some time for weeks now), though :) It is highly unlikely that an upgrade process that works for hundreds of systems around the world, even through a simple serial console connection, somehow has decided to mysteriously fail only for you. It is obvious that you are doing something wrong (or that you have done something wrong in the past, and are now seeing the consequences). We just have to find out what that is.
:) It would be real sweet not having to reinstall everything, even though I can restore all my configuration files in just one command. I'll continue snooping around, and get back to you guys. All the best, Vaaf _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
