.depend line 264: Inconsistent operator for ipf

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Mon May 30 11:39:07 PDT 2005


On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 02:22:10PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

> When someone changes the type of "foo" from file to directory,
> this is exactly what happens.  sbin/ipf/ipf was a file, which
> has a recorded dependency in your stale .depend file.  Now,
> sbin/ipf/ipf is a directory, and it has a :: type of dependency
> provided by bsd.subdir.mk in sbin/ipf/Makefile, hence the error
> from make(1).  Just blow away your /usr/obj/usr/src/sbin/ipf.
> I'm considering changing bsd.subdir.mk to prevent this from
> happening again and again.

That would probably be a good idea..this question will surely come up
again and again each time someone tries to update from 5.x to 6.x.

Kris

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