From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 26 7:58:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tuminfo2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (tuminfo2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de [131.159.0.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 525AC15406 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 07:58:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from langd@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) Received: from hpsystem14.informatik.tu-muenchen.de ([131.159.4.9] EHLO hpsystem14.informatik.tu-muenchen.de ident: root [port 3863]) by tuminfo2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de with ESMTP id <110776-227>; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 16:57:58 +0000 Received: from langd@localhost (fake: hprbg4.informatik.tu-muenchen.de) by hpsystem14.informatik.tu-muenchen.de id <12004-8145>; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 16:57:32 +0100 Message-ID: <19990326165731.G26520@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 16:57:31 +0100 From: Daniel Lang To: Jon Hamilton Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make release - a nightmare References: <19990326134015.C26520@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <19990326144646.8299E14D@woodstock.monkey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19990326144646.8299E14D@woodstock.monkey.net>; from Jon Hamilton on Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 08:46:46AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hiho, Jon Hamilton wrote on Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 08:46:46AM -0600: [..] > You can simply do ``make rerelease RELEASENOUPDATE '' > 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