On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 03:15:30AM -0600, Ron McDowell wrote: > My script builds the 4.6-release and 4.6-stable pulled 1/26. It > chokes on 2 copies of 4.6-stable pulled today. > > As I've said, I don't care about the error at this point, I want to > know how the build process works. Restating my question:
Most likely and frequent newbie error is forgetting to make obj before make build. > Does 'make build' install each subdirectory as it traverses the source tree? > Or does it traverse the sources twice, first time to compile > everything, second time to install what it compiled? No, it's more complicated than that. It obviously installs mk stuff, then include, then it builds libs and install them, then it builds everything else and installs it. It's not a complicated bootstrap procedure like in freebsd land, it assumes you already have a mostly working system (for instance, it takes no precautions for compiler bootstrap). follow release(8), find out the step you missed (most likely make obj) and proceed from there. You definitely want a clean build before you play (snide remark: you think you're smart, so you took shortcuts. Well, think again. And anyone who can follow instructions can actually build OpenBSD fairly easily. ;-) )
