shapj@us.ibm.com wrote:
>
> I have seen this too, and I'm bewildered. It does not occur in the Linux
> build, and I'ld dearly love to know why these files are getting deleted on
> FreeBSD. To answer your question, yes, I have checked this out and built
> from the checked out image. The only gap in the continuity is that I check
> it out on linux and then move it to my FreeBSD platform using 'tar' (the
> FreeBSD machine isn't configured to dial out at the moment).
>
> If you check that directory (and probably others -- run cvs update in the
> base/ tree to be sure you catch them all), you will find that the files are
> indeed missing. If you then run 'cvs update', you will get them back,
> after which make install will do the right thing.
>
> As near as I can tell, if the build gets interrupted the files get deleted.
> I do not know why. Or perhaps the BSD install program removes the source
> file once it is copied to the destination?
I'm bewildered, too - but I'm working on getting unbewildered. It isn't as simple as interrupting things (at least, I don't think it is) - after reading this, I confirmed that a pile of files had evaporated. They've stuck around through several build attempts and have just evaporated again - for no apparent reason. I'm now keeping the output from the last several build attempts in the hope that I can spot wtf is going on...
Cheers,
Ben.
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