Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:11:24AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: >> The drawback is that make will not notice if you've updated something >> besides index.xml or general.ent in the source. To force your target >> to be rebuilt, run `make clean' first. Alternatively, touch index.xml >> or general.ent to update their timestamps. I think this is a fair >> trade off for the amount of time spent watching "Validating the >> book..." when you already have a properly validated blfs-full.xml. >> > Dan, > > Now that I've been bitten by this, I think it's a real PITA. > > Just pulled down what was the current book, and ran make before I > had a go at updating. Unsurprisingly, there were no issues (on > another book I've been bitten in the past). I then updated the > changelog and cups (newer security_fixes patch). > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/repos/BLFS $vim introduction/welcome/changelog.xml > pst/printing/cups.xml > 2 files to edit > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/repos/BLFS $make > make: Nothing to be done for `blfs'. > > And yes, I remembered this discussion, and running 'make clean' > allowed me to then make the book, but it's just another aggravation. > Creating the book does take too long, but this change made it even > longer. Whether I would remember 'make clean' if I had the same > situation in a month's time is unlikely.
I've run into the same thing, but I can get it to run ok by rmoving tmp/. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
