From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 26 07:47:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA09192 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 07:47:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles216.castles.com [208.214.165.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA09186 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 07:47:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA03794; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 07:45:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811261545.HAA03794@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr (Michel TALON) cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem compiling stable release In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 26 Nov 1998 16:39:03 +0100." <199811261539.QAA24216@niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 07:45:50 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Having cvsuped stable on a machine running 2.2.5 i have > performed make -j 4 buildworld, which almost succeeded, but > halted near the end complaining with a lot of doubly defined variables > in /usr/src/lkm/cd9660. The '-j' option is not supported for builds in the 2.2 tree; it's known that there are bugs in the build structure which will cause it not to work properly. > Of course i have not installed the release, a good thing in view > of the NFS problem, but was wandering if: The "NFS problems" are related to the kernel, and are a warning of a wasteful but otherwise benign memory bloatage. > - it is dangerous to proceed as described above > - if the -j4 option had bad interferences somewhere in the build process. > > Has somebody encountered a similar problem? Yes. Your built world is quite possibly busted; I would certainly not be installing it. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message