Re: buildworld bombs in ncurses

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 16:01:47 +0300
On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 02:07:19PM +0200, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> V p?, 18. 04. 2003 v 13.56, Ruslan Ermilov napsal:
> 
> > > I have 5.0-RELEASE system installed from binary CD. Now I'm trying to
> > > update it to -CURRENT. make buildworld dies in /usr/src/lib/libncurses.
> > > This looks more like awk issue, because ncurses wasn't changed for a
> > > long time. When I look at lines in generated lib_gen.c where it
> > > complains, I see:
> > > 
> > Is your machine's date/time set correctly?
> 
> Yes,
> 
> $ LANG=us date
> Fri Apr 18 14:05:53 CEST 2003
> 
I can reproduce this problem easily with the cs_CZ.ISO8859-2 locale.
I've just committed a fix for this in lib/libncurses/Makefile,v 1.68.

> and how that could affect it?
> 
make(1) heavily depends on the correct date/time; if you have
your date/time set incorrectly (to the past), make(1) can be
confused by attempting to rebuild things at the times and using
the tools it is not supposed to.


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