Bryan Drewery

For years I have ran into this error while running make installworld:

# make installworld
[...]
===> sys/boot/i386/boot2 (install)
cc -Os  -fno-guess-branch-probability  -fomit-frame-pointer  -fno-unit-at-a-time  -mno-align-long-strings  -mrtd  -mregparm=3  -DUSE_XREAD  -DUFS1_AND_UFS2  -DFLAGS=0x80  -DSIOPRT=0x3f8  -DSIOFMT=0x3  -DSIOSPD=9600  -I/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/../../common  -I/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/../btx/lib -I.  -Wall -Waggregate-return -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align  -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs  -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes -Wwrite-strings  -Winline --param max-inline-insns-single=100   -march=i386 -ffreestanding -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2  -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2 -mno-sse3 -msoft-float -m32 -std=gnu99    -S -o boot2.s.tmp /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c
sed -e '/align/d' -e '/nop/d' < boot2.s.tmp > boot2.s
rm -f boot2.s.tmp
cc  -m32 -c boot2.s
ld -static -N --gc-sections -nostdlib -m elf_i386_fbsd -Ttext 0x2000 -o boot2.out /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/../btx/lib/crt0.o boot2.o sio.o
objcopy -S -O binary boot2.out boot2.bin
btxld -v -E 0x2000 -f bin -b /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/../btx/btx/btx -l boot2.ldr  -o boot2.ld -P 1 boot2.bin
btxld: No such file or directory
*** [boot2.ld] Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot2.
*** [realinstall] Error code 1

This has come, up, before.

Most of the posts mention bad timestamps or incorrect date. I’ve always been running ntpd though and running make buildworld before make installworld.

My longterm workaround was to make -C /usr/src/sys/boot/i386 before running make installworld.

Recently this workaround stopped working for me. Looking into it more, I realized that I was applying custom patches to the src tree and then removing them before make installworld. This was changing timestamps of source files, causing a rebuild during make installworld. Changing my scripts to leave the patch applied until after everything is installed solves it.

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