Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 02:53:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Guy Helmer <ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu> Subject: Re: Basic rebuilding questions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970701025231.7038j-100000@Journey2.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <19970701074508.NL34989@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > As Guy Helmer wrote: > > > What is the best way to rebuild the binaries and libraries, especially > > after changes to include files in current? > > Include file updates should be handled fine by the dependencies. > Added include files however require to re-run `make depend', which is > also a costly operation on a slow machine. Knowing whether include > files have been added or not, requires you to closely track the > committers list. > > More complicated updates or moves require manual intervention. I > never ran a `make world' back when my machine was a 486/33. Every time I've upgraded a machine to current, I've had it fail when building xinstall. Fix has always been to cd to /usr/src/include and do a make, make install. There were older problems with rpc that were fixed the same way. > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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