Re: Recent reports of needing to avoid META_MODE for head kernel builds for updates: a preliminary investigation

From: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 12:03:06 -0700
On 6/26/17 8:11 PM, Mark Millard wrote:
> For an example of the recent reports:
> 
> David Wolfskill david at catwhisker.org wrote on
> Mon Jun 26 12:44:20 UTC 2017 :
> 
>> On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 03:29:59PM +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Hmmm.....
>>>
>>> As if computer tries to say you, do not use meta mode.
>>
>> For building the kernel, on head as of some commit after r320307 (but
>> by r320324).
> While there are other kernel issues going on I decided to try to
> investigate the difference in meta mode incremental build results
> vs. full rebuild.

This was a bug with buildkernel with META_MODE using filemon (the
default with META_MODE).  It is fixed in r320919.  I recommend doing
another buildkernel after that and installing to ensure everything gets
updated.

-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery


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