I had gotten busy and had not done a new buildworld since January. I had a failure in buildworld, and the next day [I do nightly cvsup's], I did a make clean and got the same problem. So I did the logical thing, I removed the entire /usr/src and /usr/obj and re-cvsuped. I again got errors. Here is that error. [everthing deleted except the final section] -------------------------------------------------------------->>> stage 4: building everything..-------------------------------------------------------------- cd /usr/src; MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj MACHINE_ARCH=i386 MACHINE=i386 OBJFORMAT_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/libexec GROFF_BIN_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/bin GROFF_FONT_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/share/groff_font GROFF_TMAC_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/share/tmac DESTDIR=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386 INSTALL="sh /usr/src/tools/install.sh" PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/sbin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/bin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/games:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin make -f Makefile.inc1 all ===> share/info ===> include ===> include/arpa ===> include/protocols ===> include/rpc ===> include/rpcsvc ===> lib ===> lib/csu/i386-elf ===> lib/libcom_err gzip -cn /usr/src/lib/libcom_err/../../contrib/com_err/com_err.3 > com_err.3.gz ===> lib/libcom_err/doc make: don't know how to make com_err.pdf. Stop *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/src/lib/libcom_err. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/lib. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. 846.18 real 540.36 user 207.16 sys ------------------------------------------------------------ I remember at one time I had a problem building docs with the PDF option turned on in make.conf. So I checked and I had FORMATS=pdf html in /etc/make.conf. Ah ha! So I changed that to be FORMATS=html and rebuild again. This is the error of that output - again just stage 4 onward. -------------------------------------------------------------->>> stage 4: building everything..-------------------------------------------------------------- cd /usr/src; MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj MACHINE_ARCH=i386 MACHINE=i386 OBJFORMAT_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/libexec GROFF_BIN_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/bin GROFF_FONT_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/share/groff_font GROFF_TMAC_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/share/tmac DESTDIR=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386 INSTALL="sh /usr/src/tools/install.sh" PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/sbin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/bin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/games:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin make -f Makefile.inc1 all ===> share/info ===> include ===> include/arpa ===> include/protocols ===> include/rpc ===> include/rpcsvc ===> lib ===> lib/csu/i386-elf ===> lib/libcom_err gzip -cn /usr/src/lib/libcom_err/../../contrib/com_err/com_err.3 > com_err.3.gz ===> lib/libcom_err/doc makeinfo --no-split -I /usr/src/lib/libcom_err/doc -I /usr/src/lib/libcom_err/doc /usr/src/lib/libcom_err/doc/com_err.texinfo -o com_err.info /usr/src/lib/libcom_err/doc/com_err.texinfo:377: warning: unlikely character ( in @var. /usr/src/lib/libcom_err/doc/com_err.texinfo:377: warning: unlikely character ) in @var. /usr/src/lib/libcom_err/doc/com_err.texinfo:384: warning: unlikely character ( in @var. /usr/src/lib/libcom_err/doc/com_err.texinfo:384: warning: unlikely character ) in @var. /usr/src/lib/libcom_err/doc/com_err.texinfo:577: warning: unlikely character ( in @var. /usr/src/lib/libcom_err/doc/com_err.texinfo:577: warning: unlikely character ) in @var. info2html com_err.info info2html:No such file or directory *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/lib/libcom_err/doc. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/lib/libcom_err. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/lib. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. 854.38 real 534.98 user 203.54 sys ------------------------------------------------------------ Hm. It won't build with FOMMATS=html either. I've used that line in my /etc/make.conf for a long time. I do not recall I've ever had this problem before. I commented the FORMATS line out completey in /etc/make.conf and now everything builds correctly. I wish I had built more often but that's how this year has been so far. So the last build I did where everything worked in the past was on January 29 at 21:22 EST. Is there something else I may have changed that caused this, or has the behaviour changed in the past 4 months. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com