On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 03:22:12PM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 06:48:30PM -0400, Daniel Dickman wrote: > > I think it might be better to create missing directories (especially > > /usr/obj) before creating the symlinks. This is one less opportunity for > > someone to mess up if /usr/obj is missing for some reason... > > > > would anyone like to ok this diff, or point out any problems with it? > jmc >
no? so it's going in. daniel, looking at this again: i think it might be worth moving the "make distrib-dirs" step to the beginning. it seems logical that we keep the "remove old obj stuff" and "create obj stuff" steps together. make sense? jmc > > > > Index: release.8 > > =================================================================== > > RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/share/man/man8/release.8,v > > retrieving revision 1.61 > > diff -u -r1.61 release.8 > > @@ -188,13 +188,13 @@ > > sudo rm -rf .old & > > .Ed > > .Pp > > -Re-build your obj directories: > > -.Pp > > -.Dl $ cd /usr/src && nice make obj > > -.Pp > > Create directories that might be missing: > > .Pp > > .Dl $ cd /usr/src/etc && env DESTDIR=/ sudo make distrib-dirs > > +.Pp > > +Re-build your obj directories: > > +.Pp > > +.Dl $ cd /usr/src && nice make obj > > .Pp > > Begin the build: > > .Pp
