From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 7 15:34:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from krycek.zoominternet.net (krycek.zoominternet.net [63.67.120.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8122737B66C for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 15:34:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 30489 invoked from network); 7 Oct 2000 22:34:15 -0000 Received: from lcm243.cvzoom.net (208.230.69.243) by krycek.zoominternet.net with SMTP; 7 Oct 2000 22:34:15 -0000 Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 18:34:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Donn Miller To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Salvo Bartolotta , Philipp Huber , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: downgrade? In-Reply-To: <20001007152749.Z272@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Yes you're correct there will be problems with perl, that's > why you need a 4.x machine to do the building on and that's also > why you may need several 'make -k installworld' runs to finally > get a 'make installworld' to work. How about: sh -c "while true ; do make -k installworld && break ; done" Would this work? This is assuming that make -k returns a success (0) error code when there are no errors. Does make -k return an error code when the last command in the Makefile is successful, even if there are errors? - Donn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message