From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 28 10:39:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E03715185 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 10:37:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id TAA04380; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 19:26:12 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA00827; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 19:17:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199910281717.TAA00827@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: make buildworld problem... In-Reply-To: <99Oct28.090631est.40344@border.alcanet.com.au> from Peter Jeremy at "Oct 28, 1999 9:11:23 am" To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 19:17:04 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Peter Jeremy wrote ... > On 1999-Oct-28 07:36:53 +1000, David O'Brien wrote: > >IF you are going to run -CURRENT, you need to read this list. > > And read /usr/src/UPDATING which also warns about this > > >(/me wonders how many MORE times we are going to have to say this because > >of the signal changes...) > > A very large number I suspect. > > IMHO, the correct solution is to for the entire make world process to > be re-worked. I believe the process should always be to boot a new > kernel first (as bde(?) commented - it's much easier to recover from a > broken kernel than a broken world), and then install a new world. > Getting there from here is non-trivial - the major problem being that > our build process does not adequately differentiate between compiling > code that must run now and code that must run with the new kernel. Marcel (the one that hacked on signals ;-) is giving this very subject intensive thought. But it is definitely a lot of work. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message