From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 25 06:33:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA18336 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 25 May 1998 06:33:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA18325 for ; Mon, 25 May 1998 06:33:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA16981; Mon, 25 May 1998 13:33:00 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id PAA02957; Mon, 25 May 1998 15:32:50 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980525153245.29293@follo.net> Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 15:32:45 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Stephen McKay Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: buildworld from read-only filesystem References: <19980525111850.27126@follo.net> <199805251326.XAA17411@troll.dtir.qld.gov.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199805251326.XAA17411@troll.dtir.qld.gov.au>; from Stephen McKay on Mon, May 25, 1998 at 11:26:16PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 11:26:16PM +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: > On Monday, 25th May 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > >Because I was expecting to do _many_ testbuilds before getting things to > >work from a readonly FS, and had hoped to save some time. > > I'm puzzled. I have been building with a readonly source tree for quite > a while now. I recall having some trouble last September, so I've been > doing this at least since then. Last time I checked, it also worked with > -stable. Are you doing something trickier? I've just had many people complain that 'buildworld' from a RO FS didn't work, with the last being Terry Lambert a few weeks ago. Thus, I didn't believe it was close to working. The only 'tricky' part I did was checking out without '-P', triggering some bugs in libgmp. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message