Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:54:01 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Donald J. O'Neill" <duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year Message-ID: <20060228165401.GA20436@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <200602281036.44650.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060221103409.021a8808@broadpark.no> <200602280848.15780.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> <20060228150235.GA19822@flame.pc> <200602281036.44650.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com>
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On 2006-02-28 10:36, "Donald J. O'Neill" <duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tuesday 28 February 2006 09:02, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>On 2006-02-28 09:52, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
>>> He means to run mergemaster -p before make installworld, as in the
>>> instructions quoted at the top of this email and in
>>> /usr/src/UPDATING. Also, the documented sequence *does* include
>>> installing the kernel, so I don't know what you mean there either.
>>
>> Yes, thanks Kris.
>>
>> Sorry for the buildworld/installworld confusion. I meant right
>> before 'make installworld'.
>
> I knew where to do it, I hoped you did, but the OP might not
> and try to do it where you said.
Agreed.
> I agree with you on running a script. What I told the OP to do
> was run script and do things inside there. After I sent my
> response off, I took another look at what Kristian had written
> and decided I misunderstood what you had said. Sorry, I agree
> with you to not run it in a script, however, I do think he
> should run the program 'script' and do things from there, to at
> least have something to refer to when things go wrong. They
> will go wrong.
Yes, you're right about using the script(1) utility. I usually
run builds either inside script(1) sessions, or with something to
the effect of:
env MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/big/obj \
make buildworld buildkernel 2>&1 | tee logfile
which is more or less the same.
Your step-by-step explanation in the previous post was nice :)
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