Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 00:57:47 -0400 From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Make World on RELENG_2_2 failing for last 2 weeks.. Message-ID: <19970610005747.10979@vinyl.quickweb.com>
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Hi there.. It seems I just can't get RELENG_2_2 to build... I last did a make world about the 17th of May - and everything went just fine (although it took me a little while to patch the system to use login.conf and rc.conf... :-). The only problem I had was that the "keyrate=fast" and "linux_enable=YES" or "linux=YES" options from rc.conf weren't being honoured.. No problem - modload linux solved the problem. Oh yeah, PPP (userland) was still busted (sends load to one, and it nolonger redials :-( ) The problem is that since May 20th, I have CVSupped the latest sources on the RELENG_2_2 tag about 6 separate times (the last time being about 2 minutes ago) and each and everytime a 'make world' fails. For a while there were problems with tcl, and most recently I get errors from /usr/include/unistd.h complaining about files not found in /usr/src/usr.bin/make/lst.lib/blah... I guess the point here is that I'm confused :-) I was under the impression that the RELENG_2_2 branch was "Stable". It is called "2.2-STABLE". I'm a little concerned about the problems, since I follow this branch to get the mainstream/major fixes pulled into my production machine... I'm not looking for the up-to-the-second wonderment/mess of -CURRENT! I used to always CVsup under the "-STABLE" release -- is "RELENG_2_2" the -STABLE tree? Or is -STABLE still stuck back on the 2.1 tree? In other words, should I interpret the RELENG_2_2 tag as meaning: 1. This is the stuff being readied for the 2.2.5 release, and we call it 2.2-STABLE cause we couldn't think of a better name and it really isn't "stable" - so don't rely on it begin a stable FreeBSD (build wise). It's a mix of major innovations and bug fixes. Expected use: A non-production environment where someone wants to "safely" incorporate improvents but still wants to be able to build reliably (inother words, a friendlier, non agressive -CURRENT :-) 2. This is the FreeBSD-STABLE branch. It is derived from FreeBSD 2.2. It should nearly always build, and the focus is on fixing bugs - not innovation. Eventually, this branch will be released as FreeBSD 2.2.5. We're not sure why it's not just called -STABLE... Expected use: Production Environment. 3. Some combination of the above two options I'd really appreciate it if someone could help me out with the branch terminolgy and what I can expect from each branch! Right now, I'm under the impression that in reality RELENG_2_2 is option #1 - but I *thought* from reading the man pages and web pages that it would be more like option #2... I don't neccessarily mind either one; I'd just like to know what I'm dealing with :-) TIA, -Mark -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark finger mark@quickweb.com for my PGP key and GCS code ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable. -Sir Peter Imbert
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