From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 27 9:51: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail14.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 920CF37B405 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 09:50:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 31452 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2002 16:50:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO max) ([66.92.76.227]) (envelope-sender ) by mail14.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 27 Jun 2002 16:50:58 -0000 Message-ID: <200206271251170594.09AE4A79@mail.speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <3D1B410A.6060004@pyramus.com> References: <3D1B410A.6060004@pyramus.com> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (4) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:51:17 -0400 Reply-To: jdarnold@buddydog.org From: "Jonathan Arnold" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More on upgrading 3.5-4.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >the 'FreeBSD Unleashed' book claims that one should remove all the files >from /usr/obj before making world. >What happens if I do this and the buildworld fails... will this >incapacitate my server? Should I move the files instead? object files have nothing to do with running your system. They are intermediate files between the source and the final output. You can remove them without fear. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) The Incredible Brightness of Seeing, a Home Theater weblog http://jdarnold.tzo.com/HomeTheater To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message