> From: Daniel Dickman <didickman@gmail.com>
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> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:37:05 -0400
> 
> > Sorry, I don't think this makes sense.  I always start with doing a
> > make obj.  It's way too easy to mess things things up if you forget to
> > do that step, so running anything in my source tree without doing make
> > obj first makes me very nervous.
> >
> > Does changing the order actually fix something?
> 
> i believe so. when i followed the existing order in release(8) but
> without remembering to recreate /usr/obj first i got "/usr/obj does
> not exist" for every symlink being created.

Why did you remove /usr/obj in the first place?

The point about running make distrib-dirs is not to cover up mistakes
a user made, but to create new directories that were "created" because
new stuff got added.