On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 03:20:02PM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote: > On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:59:21 -0700 > Marcel Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 09:26:34PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > > I.e., if you built world a month ago, and didn't touch /usr/src > > > since, and /usr/obj has "buildworld" output for this /usr/src, > > > and you have booted with this world, it should be okay to start > > > building today's release. > > > > I share my src tree, so I almost always have a /usr/src that's not > > in sync with the /usr/obj for and on a particular machine. > > > > What goes wrong if /usr/src and /usr/obj are out of sync? > > > > -- > > Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Correct me if i'm wrong, but last time my obj and src was different, > and I tried a make installworld, the process returned errors of: > > <filename> file not found > > where filename was a missing file. After a cvsup and a makebuildworld, > make install world worked fine ;) > > In other words, I think you will get those errors. > That is the best scenario, but some of our share/mk targets are "broken" in that they attempt to "build" things at "install" time if they are not up-to-date. For example, SCRIPTS and FILES stuff in bsd.prog.mk suffers from this problem, and it can't be easily solved because we "abuse" the dependencies to get the correct source paths. I haven't (yet) found a way to do it "the other way".
This is often reported on various mailing lists; the most frequent one is about "expr not found" while attempting to build groff fonts at "install" time. I answered this question a few zillion times. :-) Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunbay Software AG, [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age
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