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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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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,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc Makefile 
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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.
    <dillon@backplane.com> (Please include original email in any response)    

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