Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 18:30:06 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Cc: knollm@lafcol.lafayette.edu, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lkm/cd9660 Message-ID: <19980918183006.24913@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <H000057c0185b6b4@MHS>; from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr on Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 05:44:36PM %2B0200 References: <19980918173301.47150@follo.net> <H000057c0185b6b4@MHS>
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On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 05:44:36PM +0200, Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr wrote: > Hello, > > can this considered as a recent regression ? I haven't a precise memory > of the times when I "buildworld"-ed -j 4 , but you can be sure there were > some such times during july an august (on 2.2.6 Stable, then 2.2.7 > Stable). It has never been really supported or fully functional. There have been times when low values for -j has worked, but this has been due to "luck" - ie, the makefiles have never been really safe for -j. There have been a lot of activity in -current (mostly due to Bruce Evans) to fix these problems; we're attempting to support -j there. > Nevertheless, the mere existence of "make world" should fill all of us > with joy ;-). :-) > TfH > > PS : eivind, do you know if it will be possible to upgrade from source > from 2.2.7-Stable to 3.0-Whatever (I imagine that the conversion to ELF > will make it somewhat **involved**) 'make aout-to-elf' should work from 2.2.5 and upwards. (Ie, if it doesn't work, please yell - John Birrell put in a lot of effort to make it work). Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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