From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 26 14:43:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA08021 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:43:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA08016 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:43:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA00335; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:42:54 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199702262242.OAA00335@austin.polstra.com> To: Dave Hayes cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make World failures In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Feb 1997 12:32:01 PST." <199702262032.MAA08726@kachina.jetcafe.org> References: <199702262032.MAA08726@kachina.jetcafe.org> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:42:54 -0800 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Make world has compiled on 2 out of 3 machines, one where I had to > take /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/xditview out of the make process. > I am still having troubles with the third. Mysterious failures can often be avoided by doing this before your make world: rm -rf /usr/obj/* find /usr/src -name obj -type l | xargs rm This is especially true when upgrading from a relatively distant release (distant in space or time :-). And it is especially true now, since there were changes to "make" and to the structure of the obj tree in the past 6 months. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth