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Date:      Sat, 16 Mar 2002 09:42:22 -0800 (PST)
From:      Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>
To:        <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 4.5->5.0 kldxref:No such file or directory
Message-ID:  <20020316093615.T5356-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org>
In-Reply-To: <xzpn0x9o8ko.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On 15 Mar 2002, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Emiel Kollof <coolvibe@hackerheaven.org> writes:
> > Why not test for it like this (or similar):
> >
> > [ -x /usr/sbin/kldxref ] && /usr/bin/kldxref (etcetera...)
>
> A better solution is
>
>         @(kldxref ${DESTDIR}${KMODDIR} || \
>             echo "Ignoring non-fatal kldxref failure")

I'd strongly suggest *something* like this.

I'm pretty familiar with make but at 3am the other night I missed the
"(ignored)" in the make output and figured that it had failed, and nearly
started a new thread on this myself.  I expect you'll see a lot more
people making the same mistake and dragging down the SNR.


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