> From: Daniel Dickman <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:37:05 -0400 > > > Sorry, I don't think this makes sense. I always start with doing a > > make obj. It's way too easy to mess things things up if you forget to > > do that step, so running anything in my source tree without doing make > > obj first makes me very nervous. > > > > Does changing the order actually fix something? > > i believe so. when i followed the existing order in release(8) but > without remembering to recreate /usr/obj first i got "/usr/obj does > not exist" for every symlink being created.
Why did you remove /usr/obj in the first place? The point about running make distrib-dirs is not to cover up mistakes a user made, but to create new directories that were "created" because new stuff got added.
