From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Oct 6 17:39:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D33637B401 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 17:39:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFA2F43E6E for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 17:39:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (7c9659bd99e4e2ce5e6de42c6befa691@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g970eBho069140 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 17:40:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g970eBpq069139 for doc@freebsd.org; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 17:40:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 17:40:11 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.7-RC error Message-ID: <20021007004011.GC44643@vectors.cx> References: <3DA0A82C.8030009@owt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DA0A82C.8030009@owt.com> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ** i'm bringing this over from the -questions list. ** why is the file called /usr/src/UPDATING? that's not a filename that a new-ish user would check, especially when there's a README in the same directory. kindof a misnomer IMO. src/README seems directed much more towards people who are actually interested in the build process. makes more sense to me to move src/README to src/REAME.build, and move src/UPDATING to src/README. or, move src/README to src/README.build and create a new README file. one that gives very terse instructions for building world and kernel, and possibly updating the sources. i'd be happy to provide such a file if it sounds like a good idea. or maybe a README.first. or something. thoughts? -Adam >> (10.06.2002 @ 1416 PST): Kent Stewart said, in 1.0K: << > Remi ... wrote: > >During a kernel build of 4.7-RC, wheni execute "make depend" i recieve > >the following error: > > > This doesn't happen if you buildworld, build[install]kernel, > installworld, and etc. You can work around it but the method in > /usr/src/UPDATING is there for a reason. >> end of "Re: 4.7-RC error" from Kent Stewart << -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message