From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 9 10:40:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA27791 for current-outgoing; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 10:40:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA27769 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 10:40:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from campa.panke.de (anonymous230.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.230]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA09717; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 19:32:18 +0200 Received: (from wosch@localhost) by campa.panke.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA01671; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 19:14:24 +0200 Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 19:14:24 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider Message-Id: <199606091714.TAA01671@campa.panke.de> To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Cc: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD current users) Subject: The -stable problem: my view In-Reply-To: <199606071015.MAA00708@allegro.lemis.de> References: <199606071015.MAA00708@allegro.lemis.de> Reply-to: Wolfram Schneider MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greg Lehey writes: >My problem is simple: the build procedure is screwed up. It makes the >assumption that I really want to run the version I'm building on the >machine I'm building it on. It confuses the build environment with >the execution environment. It installs components of the new system >in the execution environment before the build is finished. As a >result, if anything goes wrong, you end up with a system in an >indeterminate state. This is a particular nuisance if header files >have changed, and I think this is the biggest problem so far. Run make world in a chroot enviroment. From my memory: # mkdir /a/chroot # cd /a/chroot # cat /a/2.1R/bin/bin.* | tar xfz - # unpack bin distribution # (cd usr; cvs co src) # chroot . /bin/sh # cd usr/src; time make world > mklog 2>&1 Wolfram