From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 24 23:21:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA29567 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 24 May 1998 23:21:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles213.castles.com [208.214.165.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA29539 for ; Sun, 24 May 1998 23:21:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA10436; Sun, 24 May 1998 22:16:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805250516.WAA10436@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "John Saunders" cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, "Dan Swartzendruber" Subject: Re: make buildworld/installworld question In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 25 May 1998 11:59:31 +1000." <00a101bd8780$c29dd850$6cb611cb@saruman.scitec.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 22:16:44 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > I've done 'make world' in both single user mode and multi user > .. One thing to watch is that the /usr/libexec/ld.so file gets > updated. The last time I did 'make world' in multi user mode it > didn't. I tend to 'ls -lt' in the standard directories to check > on what didn't get updated. ld.so is installed using '-C', so if the new version is the same as the old one, it's not changed. It's debatable as to whether the use of -C is justifiable (it's not a performance improvement, and it makes the use of timestamps for identifying stale files unworkable). > Probably the best way is... ... much unuseful stuff elided. The 'installworld' target is almost always successful without any help. The 'install' utility knows how to work around most of the problems that can normally occur when installing files, and should not need any assistance. The only problems that normally occur during 'installworld' are related to the non-atomicity of the process, and these are generally avoided by the order of installation. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message