From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 8 7:37:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A379C37B503 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 07:37:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish ([62.255.97.66]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20001008143713.GDOX13676.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@parish>; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 15:37:13 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e98Eb7102527; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 15:37:07 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 15:37:06 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Bill Moran Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make buildworld failing Message-ID: <20001008153706.E253@parish> References: <39E03D71.AC278983@urx.com> <20001008132312.A253@parish> <20001008154111.D96958@freebie.demon.nl> <20001008144909.D253@parish> <20001008160111.A97340@freebie.demon.nl> <39E08323.A84B7BB0@columbus.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <39E08323.A84B7BB0@columbus.rr.com>; from wmoran@columbus.rr.com on Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 10:22:27AM -0400 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 10:22:27AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > I'm familiar with the behaviour below. But I classify it as annoying, > > if root is too dim to be careful then... > > > > Wilko > > That's an interesting take on things. Personally, I find it comforting > to have a fallback mechanism to prevent me from doing stupid things > when I'm trying to fix a frustrating problem with little sleep to help > me. > Careful as you may be, personally I'm still human. > > It's probably a mute point, though. Isn't this behaviour mandated by > POSIX? > > On another note ... why does `make world' put the immutable tag on > object files during a build? There may be an excellent reason, but I'm > somewhat confused by it. > I'm not so sure it does anymore. The last couple of make world's I've done in -STABLE have not required a chflags to remove the obj directory afterwards. > -Bill > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message