Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 21:01:14 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: John Daniels <jmd526@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-Stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make includes Message-ID: <392F488A.96F85F6B@gorean.org> References: <20000527033656.79579.qmail@hotmail.com>
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John Daniels wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> I am a newbie. Just when I thought I was prepared to go from 4.0-RELEASE to
> 4.0-STABLE (after hours of research and preparation), I find that ...
>
> Doug Barton wrote:
> >I got bit the other day by the need to 'rm -r /usr/include/*' then do
> >a 'make includes' in /usr/src. If this build fails, that might help
> >you.
>
> I haven't seen this documented anywhere. When should this be done? Is
> there a reason it is not in the handbook (chapter 7 Configuring the FreeBSD
> Kermel, or chapter 18 The cutting edge: which explains how to keep
> up-to-date with -Current and -Stable)? Are there any other (undocumented)
> "gotchas" that people should know about?
Nuking /usr/include is usually only necessary when extreme changes have
happened. Although it's rarely actually necessary to do it, it usually
doesn't hurt. A safer method would be:
cd /usr
mv include include-old
mkdir include
chmod 755 include
cd /usr/src
make includes
That way if your buildworld bombs for some reason, you've still got the
set of includes that are in sync with your current environment. Nuke'em
after you're done with installworld and kernel rebuild/reinstall.
I'm working on some updates to the "make world" docs, but time has been
really lacking lately. I wouldn't worry _too_ much though... especially
in -Stable. People work really hard to make sure that big problems like
this don't crop up very often.
Good luck,
Doug
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