Documenting make check-old?

[René Ladan]

2010/7/14 Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>:
> Hi folks,
>
> Now and then I get reports from people who upgrade from 8 to HEAD and
> forget to remove things like <utmp.h>, causing all sorts of random
> compilation problems. I noticed this page[1] doesn't mention make
> check-old/delete-old at all, which may explain why people never use it.
> Is there a reason why it isn't documented?
>
No, it just isn't there. Maybe the note that upgrading from FreeBSD 3.X needs
some special steps can be removed as well, and the second 'mergemaster'
step can probably be replaced by 'megemaster -i' (as in /usr/src/UDPATING)

> [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/makeworld.html
>
Regards,
Rene