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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!not-for-mail From: spfarrel@midway.uchicago.edu (Steve Farrell) Subject: make world does make clean first -- why?? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: quads.uchicago.edu Message-ID: <DstI3t.HE1@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: The University of Chicago Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 04:07:05 GMT Lines: 25 so after a 24 hour make world build which was almost finished, i had to stop it to reboot because i was having a problem. i figured no problem, it'll just pick up where it left off (i mean, every 10 minute compile works that way, so why would a compile that probably took a week and half on the computer it was conceived on work any differently, right?) but no such luck. seems i needed the option -DNOCLEAN to prevent it from deleting what it had been working on the past 24 hours. oops -- too late now. gr... i'm sure there is a VERY good reason for this scheme. someone please tell me (as i start another huge compile process... -- though i'll be doing a little pruning i think...) what it is? (this is my first dissappointment with freebsd, btw) --steve (that problem i was having that caused me to reboot, btw, was that non-root shells couldn't fork any processes-- i figured that the process table must have been near full... odd, b/c i thought 10 users in kernel config meant up to 360 processes, and ps -aux showed not nearly that many... so i was rebooting after building another -STABLE kernel with that number pushed up to 40...)