in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Brian T. Schellenberger thusly... > > On Sunday 06 January 2002 10:28 am, parv wrote: > > hi, > > > > i cvsup'd old sources (4-stable oct 13 2001) to current (4-stable > > 2002.01.05.15.45.19). at this point i am stuck at errors w/ > > linux_proto.h ... > > first i ran make cleandir in /usr/src, removed /usr/obj/*, and tried > > to build kernel. after first snag, i searched the internet which > > indicated to read src/UPDATING. > > > > well, first i did "make modules-clean" in > > src/sys/compile/$KERNCONF as i do not have MODULES_WITH_WORLD=yes in > > /etc/make.conf. after that when i tried again, it failed. so i > > tried again after running "make cleandir" in src/sys/modules/linux > > w/o any success. > > This is probably a more subtle fix than this, but the following is what > finally worked for me: > > rm -r /usr/obj > rm -r /usr/src > cvsup /root/sup/conf > ln -s /root/BTS /usr/src/sys/i386/conf ... > CAUTION2: Without a broadband, this would be tiresome--it causes the entire > source to be re-downloaded from the net.
you know what, that's exactly what i am doing right now... it started at 2.43p edt, and currently cvsup is downloading src/contrib/ncurses; time now is 6.23p. a long way to go on dial up connection. > NOTE: There is almost certainly a more subtle solution. But if you have a > fast connection, just doing the above is probably a lot easier & less > frustrating than tracking it down. i would sure hope that somebody else will track it down, as doing fresh cvsup of src tree needs patience, at least on dial up connection. thanks brian. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
