Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails

2003-07-29 Thread Robert Treat
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 02:47, Philip Yarra wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 04:27 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just part of the baptism of fire for a newbie, I guess. :-) I've found the learning curve pretty steep too. Is it worth putting together some of these 'gotchas' into a

Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails

2003-07-29 Thread Andrew Dunstan
A more ambitious project, and one which seems to me worthwhile, would be a descriptive tour of the source code and data structures. Something larger than an FAQ and (one hopes) smaller than a book. The existence of such things is useful in bootstrapping newbies (like me) in Linux kernel stuff,

Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails

2003-07-29 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A more ambitious project, and one which seems to me worthwhile, would be a descriptive tour of the source code and data structures. Have you looked at Bruce's presentations? There are a couple of sets of slides available from

Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails

2003-07-29 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Yes, I agree they are very useful, although not quite as detailed as what I had in mind. andrew Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A more ambitious project, and one which seems to me worthwhile, would be a descriptive tour of the source code and data structures.

Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails

2003-07-28 Thread nolan
Yep, that solved both the make clean and the coredump problems. Is that piece of information in the developers FAQ anywhere? It's in the how to use CVS instructions ... So it is. I probably read that before I got CVS working here, and it isn't mentioned (or that section of the docs

Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails

2003-07-28 Thread Philip Yarra
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 04:27 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just part of the baptism of fire for a newbie, I guess. :-) I've found the learning curve pretty steep too. Is it worth putting together some of these 'gotchas' into a neophyte-developer-FAQ? As a side note: anyone else noticed that

[HACKERS] make clean fails (more info)

2003-07-27 Thread nolan
Sorry if I didn't mention it before, but this was on FreeBSD. -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails

2003-07-27 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Make clean fails on an up-to-date CVS (as of 2:40 PM CDT on Sunday). make: *** tsearch2: No such file or directory. Stop. I suspect you forgot -d in your cvs update commands. You really need both -d and -P to make cvs update behave reasonably ... I have no idea why

Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails

2003-07-27 Thread nolan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Make clean fails on an up-to-date CVS (as of 2:40 PM CDT on Sunday). make: *** tsearch2: No such file or directory. Stop. I suspect you forgot -d in your cvs update commands. You really need both -d and -P to make cvs update behave reasonably ... I have no

Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails

2003-07-27 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suspect you forgot -d in your cvs update commands. You really need both -d and -P to make cvs update behave reasonably ... I have no idea why they are not the default behavior. Yep, that solved both the make clean and the coredump problems. Is that piece of