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Conference smurf::buildhelp

Title:USG buildhelp questions/answers
Moderator:SMURF::FILTER
Created:Mon Apr 26 1993
Last Modified:Mon Jan 20 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2763
Total number of notes:5802

2502.0. "Problem doing a mksb against any of the osf1refpages trees." by AOSG::FILTER (Automatic Posting Software - mail to flume::puck) Fri Aug 23 1996 20:21

Date Of Receipt: 	20-AUG-1996 15:06:27.54
From: 	HUNCH::"rll@unx.dec.com" "20-Aug-1996 1505"
To: 	demers@zk3.dec.com
CC: 	odehelp@zk3.dec.com
Subj: 	Problem doing a mksb against any of the osf1refpages trees.

Joyce,
	I am having problems doing mksb's against any of the
ref page trees. For example, here is the output of a mksb
against osf1refpages.ptmaint:

$ mksb -back osf1refpages.ptmaint -dir `pwd` refptmaint
lookup/getenv: target_machine not found
lookupvar target_machine failed
error evaluating argument
Error parsing rc description file ../link/rc_files/shared
Error parsing rc description file ./shared
Error parsing rc description file ../link/rc_files/shared.sharedsandbox
Error parsing rc description file ./shared
Error parsing rc description file ../link/rc_files/shared.sharedsandbox
Error parsing rc description file ./shared
Error parsing rc description file ../link/rc_files/shared.sharedsandbox
Error parsing rc description file ./shared
Error parsing rc description file ../link/rc_files/shared.sharedsandbox
Error parsing rc description file ./shared
Error parsing rc description file ../link/rc_files/shared.sharedsandbox
Error parsing rc description file ./shared
Error parsing rc description file ../link/rc_files/shared.sharedsandbox
Error parsing rc description file ./shared
Error parsing rc description file ../link/rc_files/shared.sharedsandbox
Error parsing rc description file ./shared
Error parsing rc description file ../link/rc_files/shared.sharedsandbox
Error parsing rc description file ./shared
>> FATAL ERROR in mksb:
   Cannot create set: refptmaint.

Any ideas?

Rich
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2502.1Re: Problem doing a mksb against any of the osf1refpages trees.AOSG::FILTERAutomatic Posting Software - mail to flume::puckFri Aug 23 1996 20:2214
Date Of Receipt: 	20-AUG-1996 15:20:34.90
From: 	SEAN::davidson "D. Sean Davidson"
To: 	demers@zk3.dec.com, rll@unx.dec.com
CC: 	odehelp@zk3.dec.com
Subj: 	Re:  Problem doing a mksb against any of the osf1refpages trees.

This looks like you don't have enough of the other backing trees mounted.

Check to see if osf1repages.pt is also mounted or what ever the ../link
points to.  You can check this by doing a ls -l of the link file in the
osf1refpages.ptmaint backing tree.

Sean

2502.2Re: Problem doing a mksb against any of the osf1refpages treesAOSG::FILTERAutomatic Posting Software - mail to flume::puckFri Aug 23 1996 20:2449
Date Of Receipt: 	20-AUG-1996 16:32:07.61
From: 	FLUME::demers "Joyce Demers  20-Aug-1996 1631"
To: 	odehelp@DEC:.zko.flume
CC: 	rll@DEC:.zko.flume
Subj: 	Re:  Problem doing a mksb against any of the osf1refpages trees

Sean,  I just called Rich.  Although "Error parsing rc description 
file..." is usually due to a missing reference page backing tree, Rich 
does have all the reference page backing trees mounted.  Note that the 
first error is:

	lookup/getenv: target_machine not found
	lookupvar target_machine failed
	error evaluating argument

Where is target machine defined/set?

						Joyce


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This looks like you don't have enough of the other backing trees mounted.

Check to see if osf1repages.pt is also mounted or what ever the ../link
points to.  You can check this by doing a ls -l of the link file in the
osf1refpages.ptmaint backing tree.

Sean


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2502.3Re: Problem doing a mksb against any of the osf1refpages treesAOSG::FILTERAutomatic Posting Software - mail to flume::puckFri Aug 23 1996 20:2926
Date Of Receipt: 	21-AUG-1996 09:18:44.23
From: 	SEAN::davidson "D. Sean Davidson  21-Aug-1996 0917"
To: 	"Joyce Demers, UNIX Publications Group" <sean::demers>
CC: 	sean::odehelp, sean::rll
Subj: 	Re: Problem doing a mksb against any of the osf1refpages trees

> Sean,  I just called Rich.  Although "Error parsing rc description 
> file..." is usually due to a missing reference page backing tree, Rich 
> does have all the reference page backing trees mounted.  Note that the 
> first error is:
> 
> 	lookup/getenv: target_machine not found
> 	lookupvar target_machine failed
> 	error evaluating argument
> 
> Where is target machine defined/set?
> 
> 						Joyce

This tells me that the rc files are not set up correctly either in the
sandbox or in the backing tree.

Sean



2502.4Re: Problem doing a mksb against any of the osf1refpages treesAOSG::FILTERAutomatic Posting Software - mail to flume::puckFri Aug 23 1996 20:4926
Date Of Receipt: 	22-AUG-1996 15:56:46.78
From: 	FLUME::demers "Joyce Demers  22-Aug-1996 1555"
To: 	rll@DEC:.zko.flume
CC: 	odehelp@DEC:.zko.flume
Subj: 	Re: Problem doing a mksb against any of the osf1refpages trees

Hi Rich,

The target_machine variable was added to the shared rc_file in the 
osf1refpages.pt pool back on Apr 23.  I would have thought that sup would 
have picked this change up for you.  I also would have thought that not 
having this defined would have caused a problem for the UNX writers 
sooner.  Ah well, ours is not to reason why...

Anyway, the following lines need to be added to

	/usr/doc/osf1doc/refpages/build/osf1refpages.pt/rc_files/shared

# change for ode3.0 make from ace to alpha
replace setenv target_machine alpha
replace setenv TARGET_MACHINE ALPHA

Try this and let me know what happens.

						Joyce