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Date:      Sat, 22 Nov 1997 15:24:47 -0800 (PST)
From:      Derrick Baumer <bduk@wave.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   make world shows warnings/errors?
Message-ID:  <199711222324.PAA09213@bduk.dukpad.com>

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I was told this was the place to write.  If I was misinformed, please tell me where to write with this question:

I am building FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE vial "make world".  I began with a base of FreeBSD 2.2.5-PREREL.  I downloaded the src-2.2.0500xEmpty.gz thru 0510 deltas, putting them all in a temp directory.  I went to /usr and typed "rm -r src" to get rid of the old source code.  I typed "ctm -v -v /<temp directory>/src*.gz" and it extracted everything.  Then I typed "make world".

Question 1:  It's been running for 18 hours.  I have an IBM BlueLightning 486-75 with 16 megs of RAM and 32 megs of swap-space.  The make is really the only user process running.  I'm using another computer for everything until it gets done.  Roughly how long can I expect this to take?  (ballpark?)

Question 2:  It keeps popping up warnings/errors.  Things like "nm: no name list" "strtoq.c 108: integer overflow in expression".  I've looked at a few of the files that the messages indicate - I'm a Perl programmer.  I don't know C that well and I can't honestly say I could recognize an error if I saw one unless it was blatant.  Are these messages supposed to pop up, or have I somehow botched the process?  I've seen such messages cross the screen several times.

Question 3:  If these messages are supposed to pop up, wouldn't it be nice to have that listed in the docs somewhere?  Or have I just overlooked them?  I've looked in the handbook and faq and they did nothing to ease my mind.  Perhaps a one-liner:  During the make world process, several benign error/warning messages will pop up - these can safely be ignored"... ?

Thanks.



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