From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 11 05:42:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA25341 for stable-outgoing; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 05:42:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from emu.sourcee.com (emu.sourcee.com [199.201.159.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA25336 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 05:42:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nrice@emu.sourcee.com) Received: (from nrice@localhost) by emu.sourcee.com (8.8.8/8.8.3) id IAA16279; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 08:42:25 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19980111084225.35353@emu.sourcee.com> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 08:42:25 -0500 From: Norman C Rice To: Studded Cc: Jason Evans , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "make world" failure References: <34B8A17C.1566A790@dal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <34B8A17C.1566A790@dal.net>; from Studded on Sun, Jan 11, 1998 at 02:39:56AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, Jan 11, 1998 at 02:39:56AM -0800, Studded wrote: > Jason Evans wrote: > > > > Tonight I finally got around to tracking -stable, and ran into a problem > > that isn't obvious to me while making world. > > I'm not sure what "finally got around to" implies in your post, but the > standard answer to this type of problem is to delete /usr/src/*, delete > /usr/obj/* and start again. Stale dependencies, corrupt sources, cosmic > rays... all might be contributing factors. :) Starting fresh at least > guarantees you a level playing field. If you'd like to look at a > checklist of things to take into consideration, try > http://home.san.rr.com/freebsd/upgrade.html. > > Good luck, > > Doug You may want to save your kernel configuration file(s) before wiping out /usr/src/*. -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr.