Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 08:34:23 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, jb@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc Makefile Message-ID: <199812131634.IAA05940@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9812140157560.30635-100000@bragg> <199812131602.SAA42164@greenpeace.grondar.za>
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The single biggest problem people have trying to go from -stable to
-current is having to type make world (or other similarly large target),
wait an hour, and have it exit with an error, then fix the error and
type make world again, wait another hour, and have it exit with another
error, then fix THAT error, type make world *again*, wait *another*
hour ...
See the problem?
When I went through the elf conversion on my home box two months ago or so,
it took *all* *day*. I had to restart the make 5 times. Worse, it would
get into situations where it had partially installed something, and
restarting the make wouldn't recover from the partial install... it'd die
somewhere else.
It would be a lot easier if there were a clearly defined and displayed
way to pick up a make where we left off after fixing whatever little error
caused the whole shebang to abort.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet
Communications & God knows what else.
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