From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 23 13:40:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dayspring.firedrake.org (dayspring.firedrake.org [195.82.105.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A25D737B69F for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:40:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from float by dayspring.firedrake.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14LBAW-0005Mt-00; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:40:00 +0000 Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:40:00 +0000 From: void To: Warner Losh Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch to fix "make buildkernel requires full obj directory" mistake Message-ID: <20010123214000.B19691@firedrake.org> References: <20010123212413.A19691@firedrake.org> <20010118101315.A10537@rapier.smartspace.co.za> <200101220811.f0M8BF906529@harmony.village.org> <20010123212413.A19691@firedrake.org> <200101232133.f0NLXq920871@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101232133.f0NLXq920871@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 02:33:52PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 02:33:52PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <20010123212413.A19691@firedrake.org> void writes: > : Is it possible/desirable to have make print a message upon failure of > : the buildkernel target, suggesting that the user do a buildworld if > : they haven't done so? I know that sounds a bit more hand-holdish than > : FreeBSD tends to be, but I think it would be nice. > > It is desirable, I think, but hard to know for sure if you have a > stale world or a current world. No buildworld at all is easy to detect. I would suggest not trying to detect the condition but simply mentioning that it is a possible cause of failure and letting the user figure it out from there. -- Ben "I told Paddy no, I told Steve no, I told Paul no, and Ben fell asleep." --Kate C. (no, different Ben, I would have stayed up) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message