Subject: Re: MAKEDEV/MAKEDEV.subr issues in today's i386/amd64 builds
To: None <email@example.com>
From: Izumi Tsutsui <firstname.lastname@example.org>
Date: 03/01/2007 04:48:06
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Blair Sadewitz wrote:
> > I tried installing a build from today, and I got an error when trying
> > to run MAKEDEV along the lines of "cannot find /MAKEDEV.subr" and
> > "$dirname not found". Something is definitely broken, IMHO.
> When you say "installing a build", do you mean "installing a build by
> booting an INSTALL kernel", or do you mean installing in some other way?
> It sounds as though you are running MAKEDEV in a context in which there
> is no dirname command in the PATH.
Most crunched binary in installation ramdisk don't have dirname(1).
IMHO MAKEDEV should depend on less external commands
since it's required during installation.