venky@CS.BUFFALO.EDU (Ramadoss Venkatesan) (12/15/88)
During installation of X, one issues the command: make World Suppose the above command is not successful (i.e. make exits abnormally), are there things to be set right before one makes "World" again? What I mean is, are there some permanent changes made by the above command that are to be set all right before one issues it again? In particular, during the execution of above command, following things happen in various directories: rm -f Makefile.bak mv Makefile Makefile.bak ** another Makefile is produced by imake or make ** This means that original Makefile is backed up in Makefile.bak and a new Makefile is produced. Because of "rm" command right at the beginning, when installation is tried again Makefile.bak (ie the original Makefile) is removed. That is, the original Makefile is lost and instead we have a new one. Is this o.k. when we do installation again? In short, can we do installation for the second time without caring for the changes made by the first installation? In my case, the installation aborts even before all "Makefile"s in various directories are built. venky
jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton) (12/16/88)
> During installation of X, one issues the command: > > make World > > Suppose the above command is not successful (i.e. make exits abnormally), > are there things to be set right before one makes "World" again? Just do make World again. It does a "make clean" to flush all the old stuff. If you are paranoid then you might want to save a copy of the original Makefiles. > What I mean is, are there some permanent changes made by the above command > that are to be set all right before one issues it again? If there are then it is a bug. R2 had a few header and source files that were generated and never deleted, but these were (hopefully all) flushed in R3. > In short, can we do installation for the second time without caring for the > changes made by the first installation? That's the plan.