From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 29 20:25: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 653D514D2B for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 20:24:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.219.234.53] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id aa274664 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 23:22:56 -0500 Received: from Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA12596; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 23:24:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) From: Walter Brameld To: David Kelly Subject: Re: make world failing on -stable Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 23:21:56 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: "Jeff Fulton" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200001300413.WAA87975@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <200001300413.WAA87975@nospam.hiwaay.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00012923243800.12563@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, David Kelly wrote: > Walter Brameld writes: > > Dear lord, that would be a piece of work. I'm not a Guru of FreeBSD, > > but just out of curiosity, did you clean out /usr/obj before > > building? If not, try that before anything else more drastic: > > > > # cd /usr/obj > > # chflags -R noschg * > > # rm -rf * > And then the Guru spaketh: > > May I suggest that it is faster to: > > # cd /usr/obj/ > # rm -rf * >& /dev/null > # chflags -R noschg * > # rm -rf * > > Just ignore the error messages from the first "rm -rf". This method is > faster because the first rm removes all the files that don't need > chflags' attention. In the first example you chflags thousands of files > that don't need it. Here chflags and the second rm are almost > instantaneous. > > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net > Sorry, I didn't know that. I was just following the Handbook. Thanks for the advice. --- Walter in·tel·lec·tu·al n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message