Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 21:34:14 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: clemensF <rabat@web.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Build failure (long), was Re: Kernel Build Failure in kern/subr_disk.c Message-ID: <20010529213414.A13277@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20010530054451.G591@spotteswoode.yi.org>; from rabat@web.de on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:44:51AM %2B0200 References: <20010526225855A.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010527150747.B1614@spotteswoode.yi.org> <20010527210248.B51861@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010528234040.D438@spotteswoode.yi.org> <20010528144202.C58165@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010529004908.G438@spotteswoode.yi.org> <3B135002.5BB4F5C9@i-clue.de> <20010529132630.B4555@spotteswoode.yi.org> <20010529044330.A37813@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010530054451.G591@spotteswoode.yi.org>
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--8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:44:51AM +0200, clemensF wrote: > > That's not how you're supposed to install sources. Why did you > > overwrite the old sources instead of replacing them? Obviously that's > > not going to delete any extra files removed since your older version. > >=20 > > It would have been much more bandwidth-efficient to just use cvsup to > > update your older sources in-place. >=20 > that's what i did twice before that. and old files can't be a problem, > because they won't get referenced by the new sources, right? and if they > will get referenced, it could be only because there was no new version > replacing it, right? Wrong assumption. > in the end this would lead to uncovering dependencies not covered by > uptodate/current files stored on the cvsup-server by the current > procedures. i should add that i "rm -rf /usr/src"'ed all the old files > a few days ago, because i knew i could always replace them with the > versions on my (old) freebsd 4.0 cd's. >=20 > that's obviously what happened. or take the differences between > /usr/share/mk/* and /usr/src/share/mk/*. make buildworld, for example, > calls tsort with the flag "-q", which does not exist in my version, so > builds relying on on the order of symbols fail. not surprisingly, fixing > this peculiarity lets a build proceed much farther. Aha, now we're getting somewhere. Just what version are you trying to update from, anyway? tsort -q has existed since 1996. Source-level updates from a 5 year old system are by no means supported. Kris --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7FHhFWry0BWjoQKURAmfyAJ9ETTperb+M1pYmlR2ZMsJ4OXjInACZAVnY 6zSgibhZHie4/ZFl5NoCUTk= =JZr0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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