Jacob Meuser wrote: ... > > On 5/06/2010, at 7:31 AM, Nick Holland wrote: a patch to the upgrade guide would be wrong. The problem is the patching process (a special case of the userland build process) assumes a clean obj dir. This has nothing to do with upgrades. If you try to rebuild the same userland utility more than once for /any/ reason without clearing the obj dir, you can run into problems. Clearing the obj directory as part of the upgrade is like flushing your toilet based on the date -- may help, but after a while, things start to stink. It isn't the general (or proper) solution.
> I'm still curious how anything left in /usr/obj can be anything > but a possible problem after updating system binaries and sources > to a new release. especially for people who are just "following > the directions as they are written." > > -- > jake...@sdf.lonestar.org > SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org ANYTHING left in /usr/obj will be a possible problem. ANYTHING left ANYWHERE will be a possible problem anytime anything assumes (or has/likes to assume) that it is working with a clean slate. "Fixing" minor problems (and bending everything else out of shape) does NOT make for better systems. For me, I prefer things (upgrade/update/whatever) that do as little collateral damage as possible. (And anytime you want/need to find out what went wrong you do NOT clean up everything first.)
