From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 30 23:54:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA14001 for current-outgoing; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 23:54:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cais.cais.com (root@cais.com [199.0.216.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA13996 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 23:54:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@earth.mat.net [205.252.122.1]) by cais.cais.com (8.8.5/) with SMTP id CAA03990; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 02:54:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Journey2.mat.net (journey2.mat.net [205.252.122.116]) by earth.mat.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id CAA03345; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 02:54:15 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 02:53:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@Journey2.mat.net To: Joerg Wunsch cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Guy Helmer Subject: Re: Basic rebuilding questions In-Reply-To: <19970701074508.NL34989@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > As Guy Helmer wrote: > > > What is the best way to rebuild the binaries and libraries, especially > > after changes to include files in current? > > Include file updates should be handled fine by the dependencies. > Added include files however require to re-run `make depend', which is > also a costly operation on a slow machine. Knowing whether include > files have been added or not, requires you to closely track the > committers list. > > More complicated updates or moves require manual intervention. I > never ran a `make world' back when my machine was a 486/33. Every time I've upgraded a machine to current, I've had it fail when building xinstall. Fix has always been to cd to /usr/src/include and do a make, make install. There were older problems with rpc that were fixed the same way. > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------