Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 23:21:56 -0500 From: Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: "Jeff Fulton" <jefff@fulton.net.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world failing on -stable Message-ID: <00012923243800.12563@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> In-Reply-To: <200001300413.WAA87975@nospam.hiwaay.net> References: <200001300413.WAA87975@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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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
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