Re: make buildworld error on 9.0B2

On Sat, 1 Oct 2011 07:55:34 -0500
Greg Miller <greglmiller_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/30/11, Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads_at_cox.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:57:55 -0500
> > Greg Miller <greglmiller_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On a fresh install of 9.0B2, I've updated my source to RELENG_9
> >> with csup, and I get the following when I try to make buildworld:
> >>
> >> *************************************
> >> [0] /usr/src # make clean buildworld
> >> find: /usr/src/sys/sys/param.h: No such file or directory
> >> "/usr/src/Makefile", line 217: warning:
> >> "find /usr/src/sys/sys/param.h -mtime -0s" returned non-zero status
> >
> > This seems to be very similar to an odd little quirk I've run across
> > several times recently with 9.0-BETAx, where for some reason it
> > appears that the timestamp on this file is out of sync with the
> > rest of the source tree.
> >
> > On more than one occasion, after updating /usr/src and starting a
> > "make buildworld", I've been stopped cold by this, and had to do a
> > "touch sys/sys/param.h" and restart the build.
> 
> This doesn't really sound like what I'm seeing... I'm getting this
> error because csup and cvsup are deleting most of the files in
> /usr/src/sys/sys by mistake.
> 
> If anybody has any more ideas for things to try, I'll stay on 9.0B2 a
> bit longer for testing. Otherwise, I'm upgrading via anoncvs (which is
> working for me).

I use csup to update my local copy of the CVS repository, from which I
then do cvs updates of /usr/{doc,ports,src}.  Works very well, you may
want to give that a try.

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier
conrads_at_cox.net