On 5/06/2010, at 7:45 PM, Jan Stary wrote: > On Jun 04 16:22:35, Uwe Dippel wrote: >> Jacob Meuser <jakemsr <at> sdf.lonestar.org> writes: >> >>> oh good grief. you had a dirty /usr/obj. >>> >>> just look at the pfctl snippet of the log you posted. do you see pfctl >>> being built? do you see pfctl being installed from /usr/obj? >> >> Oh, yes. So the blame is on my side, I guess. Mea culpa maxima! >> I didn't know that the object directories need to be cleaned manually. Until >> yesterday, I would have taken a bet that the object directories lie within the >> source trees (/usr/xenocaram /usr/src), and be cleaned when cleaning the >> sources. Now I am aware that I need to know the location of the object >> directories and clean them manually. > > More importantly, you have now read all of > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html > Right? > >> Still, may I suggest, that the next Upgrade Guide gets an extra line, with a >> remark pointing out the existence of /usr/obj; and the suggestion to clean it? > > So you still _haven't_ read > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#BldUserland ? > Cleaning /usr/obj is the very first line. > I wanted to understand where I was going wrong in my patching because it sounded similar to what Uwe is doing.
In my case I was *just* following the errata patch instructions, and that's *not* enough, depending on the patch. So, RTFM, FAQs 10.15 and 5.3.5 in my case. Thanks ... I've learned something. > Why would anyone waste any more time on you? > >> Thanks for the various people who helped me patiently at >> analysing this problem to the very end! > > You didn't read the documentation, screwed up, and wasted > everyone's time with nonsensical speculationas. End of analysis. > You are welcome.
