On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, David Wolfskill wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 01:18:59PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >> ... >>> In otherwords, you have stale files in ${DESTDIR}/usr/include. >> >> Thanks, David, I'd found it a couple days ago, actually it was pointed directly >> to in an earlier email. I had somehow pulled a really old copy of tablet.h from >> my cvs archive onto my system.... > > Something I've been doing for a while to avoid that is to augment the steps > listed in src/UPDATING by prefixing the "make installworld" with > > rm -fr /usr/include.old && mv /usr/include{,.old} > > so once "make installworld" has completed, /usr/include is fresh. > > I have had very few breaks -- even in CURRENT -- over the years since > adopting the approach. (And I generally track CURRENT daily.) > > Note that the approach is not appropriate for a machine that has > /usr/include updated outside of the "make installworld" process -- but my > machines don't have that issue. (Still, note that I "move aside" the old > /usr/include, just in case....) buildworld instructions generally also seem to exclude "rm -Rf /usr/obj/whatever", or some make clean variation, which is, once in a while, required to get a successful build. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of CambridgeReceived on Mon Mar 24 2008 - 17:10:26 UTC
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