Buildworld failed (RELENG_6)

Jeremy Chadwick
Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:40:45 -0000

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:09:00AM +0000, Neil Long
wrote:
> I found that with a clean 6.2 install, taken to RELENG_6_2 built fine but
> then updating to either RELENG_6_3 or RELENG_6_3_RELEASE required a rm of
> /usr/obj.
> Went happy after that.

One should always rm -fr /usr/obj/* before starting a buildworld or
buildkernel (unless you have reason not to, e.g. are a developer and are
familiar with the caveats).  The "cleaning" stage which happens
automatically on a buildworld occasionally misses things.

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