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Add a retrospective entry about how having installed a broken sed(1)

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can cause build failures.

Triggered by: too many questions on the -current
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Marcel Moolenaar 2003-06-13 20:05:46 +00:00
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@ -17,6 +17,24 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT 5.0-CURRENT IS SLOW:
developers choose to disable these features on build machines
to maximize performance.
20030613: [retrospective]
There was a small window in which sed(1) was broken. If you
happen to have sed(1) installed during that window, which is
evidenced by an inability to build world with the failure
given below, you need to manually build and install sed(1)
(and only sed(1)) before doing anything else. This is a one-
time snafu. Typical failure mode:
In file included from /usr/src/contrib/binutils/bfd/targets.c:1092:
targmatch.h:7:1: null character(s) ignored
targmatch.h:12:1: null character(s) ignored
targmatch.h:16:1: null character(s) ignored
:
The window of "sed(1)-uction" is from Wed Jun 4 15:31:55 2003 UTC
to Thu Jun 5 12:10:19 2003 UTC (from rev 1.30 to rev 1.31 of
usr.bin/sed/process.c).
20030610:
Remove deprecated locale names and transition period code
for them, finishing switching to the new scheme. Check your