On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 02:29:01 -0400, "William D. Jones" <thor0...@comcast.net> wrote:
> For the time being, does anyone know offhand the date of the most > recent CVS commit in current that successfully compiles and does NOT > have this problem? I have a machine on which I've routinely updated -current and it shows: $ ls -laF /bin/[ -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10880 Sep 28 2012 /bin/[* $ ls -laF /bin/test -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 12082 Oct 15 22:25 /bin/test* So, the last time '/bin/[' was in "base.tgz" was just over two years ago. Trawling back through source-changes@, a likely candidate for the problem appear to be in a group of commits affecting 'mtree' on 5 October 2012, particularly: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2012/10/05/msg037683.html -- |/"\ John D. Baker, KN5UKS NetBSD Darwin/MacOS X |\ / jdbaker[snail]mylinuxisp[flyspeck]com OpenBSD FreeBSD | X No HTML/proprietary data in email. BSD just sits there and works! |/ \ GPGkeyID: D703 4A7E 479F 63F8 D3F4 BD99 9572 8F23 E4AD 1645