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Date:      01 May 2003 15:52:28 -0500
From:      Jeremy Gaddis <jeremy@gaddis.org>
To:        Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@northnetworks.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make buildworld fails on 4.8-release
Message-ID:  <1051822348.238.4.camel@jupiter.main.gaddis.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030428092345.K22519-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca>
References:  <20030428092345.K22519-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca>

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On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 08:25, Steve Bertrand wrote:
> > I have been attempting a `make buildworld` on a new 4.8-RELEASE
> > machine.  I installed the sources from the CD from the sysinstall
> > user interface.  They haven't been cvsuped, updated, or modified
> > in any way.

> First thing I try when buildworld fails is:
> 
> # rm -rvf /usr/obj
> # rm -rvf /usr/src/*
> # cvsup -L 2 -g /path/to/supfile
> 
> Then attempt to rebuild from scratch. You may want to backup your original
> source/obj trees if you have already compiled a custom kernel though.

I'd rather not do a complete cvsup of the sources if I can avoid
it (only available Internet connection is 56k dialup).  Should
I just reinstall the sources from the CD and cvsup from that, or
is a complete cvsup really preferred?

Thanks,
j.

-- 
Jeremy L. Gaddis   <jeremy@gaddis.org>   <http://www.gaddis.org>;

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