Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 06:20:07 -0700 From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem building x11/nvidia-driver; ref. n245494-6827435548d2 Message-ID: <YFICB3UIS29CxjUU@albert.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <20210317131148.07f02896@ernst.home> References: <YFHxUhTAQZystyYn@albert.catwhisker.org> <20210317121837.707dc95a@ernst.home> <YFH3CpyTEcacJS3S@albert.catwhisker.org> <20210317131148.07f02896@ernst.home>
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--mx3uvbIr/mhfOyaf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 02:11:48PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > ... > Well, I have obj under my home directory and do all my builds as a > normal user rather than as root. I suspect that's why it always fails > for me. Root owns /usr/src and /usr/ports. Hmm... I won't claim a causal relationship, but note that our approaches differ. And a bit of variety is a Good Thing. :-) In my case, I own /usr/src, but do the builds as root (via "sudo"). The owner for ports is the user I set up to maintain my repository mirrors; I update installed ports (or install/delete ports) as root. > But I don't rebuild the driver until the kldload fails at boot time.=20 > I'd guess that > 90% of kernel changes do not impact the driver's > functionality. Probably, though that number is likely higher in head than in one of the stable/* branches. And the driver itself gets an update on occasion. > --=20 > Gary Jennejohn Peace, david --=20 David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org That broadly-popular "American Rescue Plan" (stimulus/COVID relrief)? Ever Republican vote in Congress was against it. See https://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. --mx3uvbIr/mhfOyaf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQGTBAEBCgB9FiEE4owz2QxMJyaxAefyQLJg+bY2PckFAmBSAgdfFIAAAAAALgAo aXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3BlbnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldEUy OEMzM0Q5MEM0QzI3MjZCMTAxRTdGMjQwQjI2MEY5QjYzNjNEQzkACgkQQLJg+bY2 PckRMgf9EMjloWe3zpkQ+a9v867xq1l2zAHzWzCSfNljZXzEoZbPu4HKL/Zx6/WE IHn6JiP2fmYe8tjnSMCY2b3vaDW3utjKRlowdaRCsyTHROGIBPKO2lyUYh+oaS4g 69PzYCtwo88vp4K5U0CapqPu9gVk3s4N8Gddojur0IaD9c5HyAZVxg5f4tiHcnIi dDDW7E09vEX71hqrc5WAKcWqEF60MvS544wrptSDrpNsY5osKfKuX2R/g5CEPVnT CHr3Mx6i2VHa6qe31Ej8F+54UuC9zTYKk3MLCnU9BN9GLsPoCMB8aV2WqIKpa0UV 1+IUr2Tkba10nevfnlE/7tmCs11QLg== =ENa+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mx3uvbIr/mhfOyaf--
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