From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 8 00:49:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA29987 for current-outgoing; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 00:49:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA29961; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 00:49:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.gsoft.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA01454; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 17:16:49 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199710080746.RAA01454@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Chuck Robey cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG, asami@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: buildworld In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Oct 1997 02:12:17 -0400." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 17:16:49 +0930 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I finally had a chance to really test Satoshi's makefile changes. I am > recovering now from a sudden loss of two disks, just after I'd lent out my > 3.0 snap cdrom. The latest cdrom I had laying around was 2.2, so I booted > from that one, and began using ctm to get my cvs archive back. It's been > awhile, because I have a slow line. > > Getting back to current was flawless. Makefile buildworld, ven from a 2.2 > base, simply worked right, first time. > > Thanks for the work, Satoshi, you sure made things easy! In a similar maneouvre, I accidentally did a "make world" on a 2.2 source tree on a -current machine. Having realised what I'd just done, I went back to a 3.0 source tree and ran "make world" again to undo it. Time consuming, but a great vindication of the principle! mike