From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 23 13:13:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from bunrab.catwhisker.org (adsl-63-193-123-122.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.123.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8813037B401 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:13:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from david@localhost) by bunrab.catwhisker.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9NKD7T42890; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:13:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:13:07 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <200110232013.f9NKD7T42890@bunrab.catwhisker.org> To: mark@grondar.za, peter@wemm.org Subject: Re: It's baaack... -- ("make: don't know how to make copies. Stop") Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, david@catwhisker.org In-Reply-To: <200110231943.f9NJhTY15110@grimreaper.grondar.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:43:29 +0100 >From: Mark Murray >Actually, it is possible for there to be no copies: target in >src/share/examples/. The copies: (actually copies::) >target is built up in a .for loop that may be empty. >The fix is a dummy copies:: target. In the mean time, my laptop got through today's -CURRENT installworld OK, after trying the 2nd of Peter's suggested aproaches (paraphrasing, cd /usr/src/share && cd `make -V .OBJDIR` && rm -fr *; he also suggested ensuring that the target of the 2nd "cd" wasn't something of value first). Cheers, david -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org As a computing professional, I believe it would be unethical for me to advise, recommend, or support the use (save possibly for personal amusement) of any product that is or depends on any Microsoft product. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message