On Fri, 28 Aug 1998 09:52:57 -0500 (CDT), Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> 
> It is true, that no other package is required to be INSTALLED. The package
> system pulls the jpeg libs and a few other graphics libs into the build
> tree, but without installing them. It also checks for the 'unzip' binary,
> and will build and attempt to install the 'unzip' package if not found.
> Do 'cd pkgsrc/print/ghostscript5 ; make -n build-depends,' and you will
> be simply amazed.

Ah... Now I remember :-)

> > > It stopped in single user and said run fsck_ffs manually. I did, and 
> > > answered yes for everything that was messed up.
> > 
> > Hmm, then some damage is done.  Maybe switching SCSI driver helps?
> > (ncrscsi to sbc, or vice versa)
> 
> Why would the machine crash during a make? The drive isn't full, is it?
> (Try 'df'.) When you're logged in as an ordinary user, 'make' will stop
> with a "drive full" error when it comes up against the maximum free space,
> but the root user bypasses that limit, and could possibly do some damage
> this way.

Not usually.  It's just that root has a different threshold of getting
the "filesystem full" error than normal users do.  Even root can't
write beyond the filesystem's capacity.

Ken