Re: can't buildworld - boot2

On 2004-10-26 00:10, brian_at_aljex.com wrote:
> deleted /usr/src and /usr/obj again
> used vipw to change roots shell back to /bin/csh
> logged out & back in
> cvsupped and make buildworld worked fine (with the -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing btw,
> I don't know if that's been implimented yet, I put it in make.conf)
>
> possible clue: you mentioned -j
> I had tried a -j4 , which was the first time I ever tried -j anything btw,
> previously and it failed, but it didn't fail anywhere near the spot I showed.
> After it failed I shrugged and thought "not surprising" and did a make clean
> and make buildworld and got the failure in boot2 I originally posted about, and
> continued to get the same failure no matter what I did over several complete
> delete/checkout/build attempts even though I never used -j again.
>
> Silly as it seems, the only common factor I see was that all those attempts,
> spread over 3 or so days, took place in the same login session, the same
> instance of bash, as the original make -j4 failure.
>
> Either the initial failure screwed up the instance of bash and all I needed to
> do was log out & in, or the use of bash vs csh is no good, or some change was
> committed in the last few hours that fixed it, or -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing
> works where -O doesn't.

Or your /usr/obj was messed up royally by running with -j4, and wiping
it fixed everything ;-)