What are _p. files that break installworld?

Carolyn Longfoot c_longfoot at hotmail.com
Sun Jan 11 05:19:58 PST 2004


ARRGGGHH

I knew it was something simple like this. I compiled on one box and 
installed on another, so /etc/make.conf on one was used during compile and 
another make.conf during install.
Big trap.

Thanks a lot!
Caro


>From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com>
>The _p.a files are profiled versions of the libraries, although their 
>absence normally doesn't cause any problems.  You may have "NOPROFILE=true" 
>set in your /etc/make.conf, or you may have had it set when building world 
>but not when you tried the installworld.
>
>--
>-Chuck

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