[9fans] plan9port rc ./manweb - null list in concatenation

[9fans] plan9port rc ./manweb - null list in concatenation

[Russ Cox]

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?

Thanks.
Russ

Re: [9fans] plan9port rc ./manweb - null list in concatenation

[rattan]

> 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