Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 17:16:49 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG, asami@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: buildworld Message-ID: <199710080746.RAA01454@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Oct 1997 02:12:17 -0400." <Pine.BSI.3.95.971008020757.10789H-100000@earth.mat.net>
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> 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
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