From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 18 09:31:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA16361 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 09:31:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA16340 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 09:30:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA00333; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 18:30:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id SAA13712; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 18:30:07 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980918183006.24913@follo.net> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 18:30:06 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Cc: knollm@lafcol.lafayette.edu, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lkm/cd9660 References: <19980918173301.47150@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr on Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 05:44:36PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 05:44:36PM +0200, Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr wrote: > Hello, > > can this considered as a recent regression ? I haven't a precise memory > of the times when I "buildworld"-ed -j 4 , but you can be sure there were > some such times during july an august (on 2.2.6 Stable, then 2.2.7 > Stable). It has never been really supported or fully functional. There have been times when low values for -j has worked, but this has been due to "luck" - ie, the makefiles have never been really safe for -j. There have been a lot of activity in -current (mostly due to Bruce Evans) to fix these problems; we're attempting to support -j there. > Nevertheless, the mere existence of "make world" should fill all of us > with joy ;-). :-) > TfH > > PS : eivind, do you know if it will be possible to upgrade from source > from 2.2.7-Stable to 3.0-Whatever (I imagine that the conversion to ELF > will make it somewhat **involved**) 'make aout-to-elf' should work from 2.2.5 and upwards. (Ie, if it doesn't work, please yell - John Birrell put in a lot of effort to make it work). Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message