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Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:42:51 -0400
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: [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=3Dexit(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=20
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