From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 26 09:21:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA05162 for current-outgoing; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:21:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA05156 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:21:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from channel.eng.umd.edu (channel.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.186]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.8.2/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA06322; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 12:21:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by channel.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA02004; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 12:21:04 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: channel.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 12:21:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@channel.eng.umd.edu To: Ron Bolin cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question on Current Philosophy In-Reply-To: <32722AEA.59E2B600@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Ron Bolin wrote: > Is it normal to have so many problems in building from current. Since > 10-14 > I have never been able to make a complete make world because of > undefined > or non-existent defines or variables/functions residing in the code. > > Is this normal and expected, are the developers expecting current users > to > report this? I am in a position to test the code, but I don't have time > to > run down the unresolved defines and functions. That shoudl be the > developer > who is responsible for the module? > > If I have got this wrong, please correct me, as this seems very > frustrating > from my point of view. Is a SNAP suppose to be the only reliable build? Ron, as I posted before, the reason no one else is complaining about -current being so buggy is because it ISN'T. Your archive is probably very badly mangled. > > THank's > Ron > -- > **************************************************************************** > Ron Bolin rlb@mindspring..com, http://www.mindspring.com/~rlb/ > GSU: gs01rlb@panther.gsu.edu matrlbx@indigo4.cs.gsu.edu Home: > 770-992-8877 > **************************************************************************** > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------