Re: FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA4 now available

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On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Julian H. Stacey wrote:

>> The fourth ALPHA build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available
>> on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and
>> sparc64 architectures.
>>
>> Note:  Due to build issues within the head/ branch, ALPHA3 ISO builds
>> were skipped.
>>
>> The 10.0-ALPHA4 builds correlate to svn revision r255933 of the head/
>> branch.
>
> (After zapping boot on an adjacent parition & repairing,)
> I avoided installer, & booted another partition, mounted
> FreeBSD-10.0-ALPHA4-amd64-memstick.img & tar'ed to empty partition
>
> 10.0-ALPHA4 runs, built & ran new generic kernel & ports X11 etc. :-)
>
> I had supposed an Alpha /usr/src would compile even if it broke at run time.
> Not so, 10.0-ALPHA4 src/ is broken (with & without obj & depend).
> 	 cd /usr/src ; make -i install
> killed the system. To avoid killing, I hacked Makefiles, list below.
> Reinstalled & survived.

I thought buildworld+installworld was the documented way to build 
everything.  Do you have other documentation I should look at?

> I'll try with a newer current later, but Alpha4 src/ needs fixing.
>
> cd /usr/src ; cp /dev/null ~/tmp/`uname -r`.diffs
> foreach i ( `find . -name Makefile\*.pre_jhs | sort`)
> echo >> ~/tmp/`uname -r`.diffs
> diff -c $i `dirname $i`/`basename $i .pre_jhs` >> ~/tmp/`uname -r`.diffs

BTW, unified diffs are preferred.

-Ben