On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Daniel Brown wrote:

> Dear folks,
> 
> In an attempt to bring my installation of RiscBSD vaguely up-to-date (I'm
> finding that current kernels don't like too much my Atomwide Ether3
> podule), I had a go at sup'ing, then rebuilding the entire system from the
> ground up via 'make build', using freshly compiled make, and the like.

did you go into the /usr/src/share/mk and do a make includes (I think it
is)?  
 
> Unfortunately, without complete success - the 'make cleandir' stage failed
> in /src/sys/arch/arm32, and an attempt to redo the libraries ended up with
> libc trying to compile the -pic version of itself.

I think mark updated a file somewhere to stop this happening, (last time I
tried to rebuild things it went wrong with one of the other libraries in
compiling, can't remember which, I'll have a look when I get back to my
rpc)

> I'm wondering if 'make build' is supported under 'arm32', and if not,
> if there's a different accepted means of remaking userland.

There was something about thgius on the mailing list a while back... Not
sure where or when

Chris Gilbert

PS apologies for any bad spelling, but I'm on a slow link