Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 14:07:33 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: jdp@polstra.com Cc: chad@anasazi.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: broked stable Message-ID: <199708082107.OAA20899@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <199708082019.NAA04079@austin.polstra.com> (message from John Polstra on Fri, 08 Aug 1997 13:19:19 -0700)
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
* > This seems to catch someone about once a week, from reading this list. * * That's because people *cheat* and try to skip steps, instead of * typing "make world". Note that what John is saying is true now, but not before. The old "world" target often died before even getting to the "includes" stage because tools required to build includes required new include files (the prototypical chicken-and-egg problem :). The new Makefile gets around this problem by doing a crude copy and symlinking at the beginning of "bootstrap" target to set up a minimal include environment, so this should no longer be the case. (Unless someone has a reeeeeeeeealy old system with incompatible cpio or something...but then I'm sure something else will fail anyway....) Satoshi
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199708082107.OAA20899>