Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 19:14:24 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Cc: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD current users) Subject: The -stable problem: my view Message-ID: <199606091714.TAA01671@campa.panke.de> In-Reply-To: <199606071015.MAA00708@allegro.lemis.de> References: <199606071015.MAA00708@allegro.lemis.de>
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Greg Lehey writes: >My problem is simple: the build procedure is screwed up. It makes the >assumption that I really want to run the version I'm building on the >machine I'm building it on. It confuses the build environment with >the execution environment. It installs components of the new system >in the execution environment before the build is finished. As a >result, if anything goes wrong, you end up with a system in an >indeterminate state. This is a particular nuisance if header files >have changed, and I think this is the biggest problem so far. Run make world in a chroot enviroment. From my memory: # mkdir /a/chroot # cd /a/chroot # cat /a/2.1R/bin/bin.* | tar xfz - # unpack bin distribution # (cd usr; cvs co src) # chroot . /bin/sh # cd usr/src; time make world > mklog 2>&1 Wolfram
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