From: Daniel Lang <dl@leo.org> To: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make release - a nightmare Message-ID: <19990326165731.G26520@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: <19990326144646.8299E14D@woodstock.monkey.net>; from Jon Hamilton on Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 08:46:46AM -0600 References: <19990326134015.C26520@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <19990326144646.8299E14D@woodstock.monkey.net>
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Hiho, Jon Hamilton wrote on Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 08:46:46AM -0600: [..] > You can simply do ``make rerelease RELEASENOUPDATE <other stuff>'' > to avoid the cvs update. Ah, _very_ good to know that, thanks. Btw, as you mention that, I remember another problem I ran into, but forgot to write about it: I tried to speed things up by specifying 'make -j 4 ...' to have more processes running concurrently. This worked fine for a while until the build aborted with 'make: argument list too long' so I guess, at some stage, there are passed exactly as many arguments as possible, and my additional ones (which cause other args to be added to child-makes, I guess) break the thing. I'm afraid that this could happen if I pass -DRELEASENOUPDATE (and others), as well.. [..] > } Generally more documentation about 'make release' > } would be nice. Well I volunteer to set up a webpage > > The sentiment seems to be that ``make release is meant for experts > only'', which I don't think is entirely appropriate, although I do > understand that it's a hairy process and Jordan and others are very > busy and cleaning it up and/or writing better documentation is just > something they haven't gotten around to yet. Yes, no offence meant by any means. And its great to have such a possibility at all. (I guess the Losix-users never even dream about s.th. like that ;-)) > I started toying with > make release a couple of weeks ago and ran into some of the problems > you mentioned, eventually working around them and making a successful > release. I took notes and intend to write and contribute some > documentation, but as always time is very scarce and I can't even > guess when I might have anything of use. Aye, same about me (as I wrote), but I guess it would be a good idea to stay in touch anyway. Thanks for the hints, regards, Daniel -- IRCnet: Mr-Spock - Burn them to ashes, then burn the ashes. - RL: Daniel Lang * dl@leo.org * +49 89 8540017 * http://www.leo.org/~dl/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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