From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 21 8:21:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atlas.usls.edu (linux1.usls.edu [202.47.133.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A94C14BF9 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 08:21:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from francis@usls.edu) Received: by atlas.usls.edu (Postfix, from userid 500) id 9A47EA4C5; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:18:09 +0800 (PHT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by atlas.usls.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9032D7D8F; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:18:09 +0800 (PHT) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:18:09 +0800 (PHT) From: "Francis A. Vidal" To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: building world with softupdates In-Reply-To: <33167.937901587@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > `make buildworld' fails with softupdates symlinked to the > > /usr/src/ufs/ffs/ directory. is it okay to just copy the softupdates > > *.[ch] files to the ../ffs/ directory? i hope this will work. > > I'm pretty sure you've either missed an important e-mail message to > freebsd-stable or freebsd-current (whichever you read) or you misread > one of the the README.softupdates or LINT files. > > Are you sure you sure you did this: > > cd /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs > ln -s ../../contrib/softupdates/*.[ch] . yes, i did that. i previously compiled a new kernel with softupdates using the instructions from /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.softupdates. i successfully ran buildworld without any problem after copying (not symlinked) the files for softupdates directly to the /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs directory. -- francis vidal university of st. la salle, bacolod city, philippines . . . . . . . PGP key available via e-mail / subject: get PGP key u s l s N E T tel. nos. (6334).435.2324 / 433.3526 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message