Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 23:15:41 -0500 From: Lane Holcombe <laneholc@earthlink.net> To: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> Subject: Re: Going STABLE from CURRENT Message-ID: <200109280416.VAA05004@hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <20010927224249.C7673@leviathan.inethouston.net> References: <200109270314.UAA07836@gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net> <E15mnns-0004c4-00@avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net> <20010927224249.C7673@leviathan.inethouston.net>
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On Thursday 27 September 2001 10:42 pm, you wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 09:55:03PM -0500, Lane Holcombe wrote: > > Thanks for all of the help. > > > > I think maybe I just looked at it too long. > > > > The trick was to do it all *IN ORDER* so that i "rm -rf /usr/obj" BEFORE > > i "cvsup -yadda -yadda" > > > > etc... > > > > after removing /usr/obj then cvsup'ing /usr/src (RELENG_4) I was able to > > successfully make buildworld > > It should not matter as long as you rm -fr /usr/obj before building. Since I have just fallen into the trap. it seems to me that there should be more signs to indicate it. At least a message that says: "Hey! You should remove your object tree before you do this. Otherwise your build will fail and you'll be all over freebsd-questions wasting everybody's time!" I wonder why "rm -rf /usr/obj" is not a standard part of "make buildworld". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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