Re: lzma support in `stable' has potential issues

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Jeremy Chadwick
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 11:58:56PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 I recently wiped off my Lenovo again to get a fresh install =
of
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 FreeBSD on it, and started out at 8.0-RELEASE (it's the medi=
a
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 that I had on hand at the time). Upgrading to 8-STABLE appea=
rs
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 to be problematic though. =A0On a few different occasions I =
ran
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 into issues doing the following:
>>
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 make -C /usr/src/usr.bin/lzmainfo depend - fails to find the
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 appropriate headers
>>
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 make -C /usr/src/lib/liblzma install - fails to install the
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 headers into /usr/include/lzma
>>
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 Etc. I didn't see these issues before lzma was imported into=
 the
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 tree, which makes me wonder whether or not there are some
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 missing build or install dependencies somewhere.
>
> buildworld/installworld does the Right Thing(tm), while the above
> "one-off" makes do not.

buildworld got hung up a lot on the same problems as the one-off makes.

> I don't think there's any guarantee "make depend" and "make install" in
> the individual /usr/src/{whatever} directories will do what you want it
> to. =A0It seems to be a per-piece thing; there's no "universal standard"
> (aside from buildworld/installworld) is what I'm getting at.

This is sad because it implies (to me) that the concept of depend,
installincludes, etc is broken :(.

Thanks,
-Garrett
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