From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 26 14:41:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA11372 for current-outgoing; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 14:41:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fxp0.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA11367 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 14:41:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 10863 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Jan 1998 22:38:22 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-011998 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20303.885843175@time.cdrom.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 14:38:22 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: make release from 25/jan/98. Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG, eculp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On 26-Jan-98 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I've said this before and I'll say it again: > > 1. The make release target is for experts only. > > 2. If you feel yourself to be an expert then you MUST then at least > take care to read and *thoroughly understand* > /usr/src/release/Makefile. > > In this case, as the file plainly shows, the doc distribution was > reenabled again and the user here isn't cvsup'ing the docs, hence the > error. I don't have time to improve *and* document the release > building tools right now, folks, so if you're going to use this stuff > then you have to watch the commit messages and read that file > carefully from time to time so that you can keep up. > > Jordan Does it build for you? If not, then we should not waste our time trying to duplicate the breakage. Your reply implies it does (?) Thanx! Simon