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Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:24:56 -0400
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
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> 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