On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Sarton O'Brien wrote:
Having used '-u' only a few times and having encountered problems each
time, it'd be good if it worked a little more as advertised. Only when
people have posted their problems here, I've find out that '-u' is
generally an option to avoid, unless you know the possible complications.
It's easy enough to figure it out but initially it was a bit confusing.
Maybe it's use should be conditional with certain expected
implications to avoid people having different expectations from it's use?
Just a thought, as I've not found the option of much use since I
started building netbsd and I am regularly seeing "Are you using
-u?!?" as a response to a failed build. There are obviously a few
people this snags.
Or ... maybe it's just one of those things that will always be a
little obscure :)
I use -u all the time and it almost always works. On those rare
occassions when it doesn't work, I'll go back to a full build.
Even on a quad-core amd4 with -j8, a -u saves a lot of rebuild time when
it works.