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From: rattan <rattan@cps.cmich.edu>
To: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9port rc ./manweb - null list in concatenation
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:24:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0507221522480.10170@cps210> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a05072211427c7cd223@mail.gmail.com>



> A few different people have reported seeing errors like:
>
>       usage: basename [-d] string [suffix]
>       usage: basename [-d] string [suffix]
>       rc: null list in concatenation
>       mk: rc ./manweb  : exit status=exit(1)
>
> during the "cd dist; rc ./manweb" phase of ./INSTALL.
> I myself have seen it happen on one or two different
> systems, but never reliably.  (One of them broke
> reliably, but only until I became interested in looking
> at the problem.)
>
> I have a plausible explanation for what is going on and
> a bug fix that would test the explanation, but I don't
> want to go poking around in the dark.  Does anyone
> have a machine where rc reliably errors out at the
> end of ./INSTALL?

Yes, each time the plan9port is compiled under Solaris-5.10-Sparc
old and new versions of port produce the same behavior.

-ishwar


      reply	other threads:[~2005-07-22 19:24 UTC|newest]

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2005-07-22 18:42 Russ Cox
2005-07-22 19:24 ` rattan [this message]

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