Re: patching


On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, David Wolfskill wrote:

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 01:18:59PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
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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 Cambridge
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