Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 18:55:39 -0800 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gnu/usr.bin/cvs/libdiff Message-ID: <199801280255.SAA28113@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980126211210.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> References: <XFMail.980126211210.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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In article <XFMail.980126211210.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>, Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> wrote: > While I know most of my shortcomings (thanx for the rminder :-), I still did > nothing short of cvs update (or checkout - matters not), followed be make > buildworld and poof - the compile failed. I read the man pages for make > several times but do not see anywhere mentioned that I am supposed to know > anything. It implies that what compiled yesterday should compile today. > > In othert words, here is the tail output of make buildworld of this > afternoon: > > echo libcvs.so..: > `LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/3.0/src/tmp/usr/lib:/usr/obj/usr/src/3.0/src/ > tmp/usr/lib cc -nostdinc -shared -Wl,-f ` >> .depend > ===> gnu/usr.bin/cvs/libdiff > make: don't know how to make diff.c. Stop > *** Error code 2 It's because you have stale dependencies in your ".depend" file. Of course your "rm -rf /usr/obj" fixed that. But you could have fixed it a lot more quickly by just deleting the offending ".depend" file. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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