Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 08:04:33 -0500 From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cleaning /usr/obj Message-ID: <20011107080433.A942@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <20011106165053.A7262@kayak.xcllnt.net>; from marcel@xcllnt.net on Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 04:50:53PM -0800 References: <200111060218.fA62ILs61502@freefall.freebsd.org> <20011105215308.A11461@lerami.lerctr.org> <20011105195947.A2591@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20011106014026.A23162@lerami.lerctr.org> <20011106014651.D2494@blossom.cjclark.org> <20011106051432.A3878@lerami.lerctr.org> <20011106122327.A6685@kayak.xcllnt.net> <20011106130859.B386@blossom.cjclark.org> <20011106165053.A7262@kayak.xcllnt.net>
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On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 04:50:53PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > The Handbook has long said,
> >
> > 19.4.5 Remove /usr/obj
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > You can speed up the ``make world'' process, and possibly save
> > yourself some dependency headaches by removing this directory as
> > well.
>
> The documentation is stale for a long time :-)
I just submitted a PR doc/31803 to add "what happens if I have
problems?" that includes explicitly blowing away /usr/obj and doing
make cleandir twice. It's been discussed on -doc and updated a few
times to answer people's objections. Here's the latest:
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</itemizedlist>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
+
+ <qandaentry>
+ <question>
+ <para>What do I do if something goes wrong?</para>
+ </question>
+
+ <answer>
+ <para>Make absolutely sure your environment has no
+ extraneous cruft from earlier builds. This is simple
+ enough.</para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>chflags -R noschg /usr/obj/usr</userinput>
+ &prompt.root; <userinput>rm -rf /usr/obj/usr</userinput>
+ &prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/src</userinput>
+ &prompt.root; <userinput>make cleandir</userinput>
+ &prompt.root; <userinput>make cleandir</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Yes, <command>make cleandir</command> really should
+ be run twice.</para>
+
+ <para>Then restart the whole process, starting
+ with<command>make buildworld</command>.</para>
+
+ <para>If you still have problems, send the error and the
+ output of <command>uname -a</command>to &a.questions;.
+ Be prepared to answer other questions about your
+ setup!</para>
+ </answer>
+ </qandaentry>
</qandaset>
</sect2>
</sect1>
==ml
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