FreeBSD-current r238290 installworld failure

[Kim Culhan]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Kim Culhan <w8hdkim at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Kim Culhan <w8hdkim at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> Ran another buildworld and on this run gcc was produced in
>>>> /usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc
>>>> and installworld worked fine.
>>>
>>> I would be curious (if it happened again) if you updated your source
>>> tree but not your objdir, or see whether or not there was some clock
>>> skew at hand.
>>
>> Yes the objdir was unchanged from the the previous run which was ~30 days ago.
>>
>> Should probably have rm -r'd /usr/obj before the first run today.
>
>     Indeed. Changing source directories and not cleaning out your
> objdir is certain to bring pain in certain cases because of dependency
> order `violations` if you using -DNO_CLEAN, -DKERNFAST, etc (sys/boot
> definitely hates it when things are in an inconsistent state, as does
> include/). `Hacks` or modifications to sources might be required to
> get things to work if you patch things on the fly as well [1].
> Cheers,
> -Garrett
>
> 1. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/160646

Very good, thanks for the info, running another buildworld now.

-kim