Upon trying to build /sys/src/cmd for the arm today (beagleboards came in), I found that mk was dying due to bad source installed by contrib(1) packages. mk -k install was able to get me through most of it, but the three worst offenders didn't even have mkfiles in their top levels; since I didn't really care about having them, I deleted the directories and continued. Those three offenders: 1. "contrib", which seems to have only one file in it. 2. "tcl" 3. "vim"
And, while it didn't bring mk -k to a grinding halt, I did notice that, with nupas installed, "cd /sys/src/cmd/upas; objtype=arm mk install" chokes on /sys/src/cmd/upas/imap4.c/imap4.c. Please, those of you who make contrib packages, don't dump source into /sys/src without first checking that it can actually build! It's not too difficult to do a "mk install" in /sys/src/cmd after you put the source in there. Maybe there should be a contrib/verify script which goes through /sys/src and makes sure everything can still build normally? John -- "Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing" -- Rob Pike
