On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:00:48PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
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> > From: Daniel Dickman <didickman@gmail.com>
> > 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.

right. so the step isn;t neccessary. but since it additionally covers
that particular user error, where's the harm? plus, as daniel mentioned,
it mirrors more closely the steps in making X.

anyway, it is not really important. we can leave it if people think it's
not worth changing. on reflection, i'm inclined to think it probably
isn;t worth it.

jmc