On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 04:16:16PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
  | On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 07:51:33AM -0500, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
  | > On Sun, 18 May 2003, John Nemeth wrote:
  | > 
  | > >      It looks like the flists for i386 are out of date.  This is the
  | > > output from a 20030518 i386 build:
  | > 
  | > > > ./lib/libc.so.12.97
  | > > 1357a1359
  | > > > ./usr/include/i386/mouse.h
  | > > 1916a1919
  | > > > ./usr/include/sys/float_ieee.h
  | > 
  | > > checkflist: flist inconsistencies found
  | > > checkflist: key to output:
  | > >   <  file is in flist but missing from DESTDIR
  | > >      (file wasn't installed ?)
  | > >   >  file is in DESTDIR but missing from flist
  | > >      (file is obsolete or flist is out of date ?)
  | > > *** Error code 1
  | > 
  | > Those are all obsolete files. You're DESTDIR wasn't clean?
  | 
  | And when you delete them (which is usually safe) you'll find that
  | libstdc++ (IIRC) has a .depend file that refers to float_ieee.h
  | so makes the build fail.
  | 
  | Actually I do wonder if these extra  files are a problem?
  | (especially after an 'update' build).
  | 
  | If you build the sets, then don't their contents depend on the flists
  | with permissions from METALOG (if unprived) not on DESTDIR.
  | (makbe lukem knows the answer...)

IIRC, a combination of both.

I always build with UPDATE, and occasionally I have to clean out
DESTDIR to get things going again.  Most of the time, I find that
deleting the extra files is acceptable and lets the "distribution"
or "sets" build complete successfully.