Jacob Meuser wrote:
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 04:22:35PM +0000, Uwe Dippel wrote:
Still, may I suggest, that the next Upgrade Guide gets an extra line, with a
remark pointing out the existence of /usr/obj; and the suggestion to clean it?
you can't supply a patch? can't even attempt one? all these posts and
time wasted and you can't try to make a patch to maybe save someone else
from the same fate?
a patch to the upgrade guide would be wrong.
The problem is the patching process (a special case of the userland
build process) assumes a clean obj dir. This has nothing to do with
upgrades. If you try to rebuild the same userland utility more than
once for /any/ reason without clearing the obj dir, you can run into
problems. Clearing the obj directory as part of the upgrade is like
flushing your toilet based on the date -- may help, but after a while,
things start to stink. It isn't the general (or proper) solution.
faq10.html, section 10.15 would be more appropriate, I think. It will
probably require more than a couple line diff to work it in clearly.
Nick.
