Re: [9front] Staying up-to-date

[Thaddeus Woskowiak <tswoskowiak@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 10:58 AM Thomas Nemeth <tnemeth@free.fr> wrote:
>
>     Hi.
>
>     I've read the FQA and some other documentation a lot and I'm amiss
>     about why my system upgrade script does not work the way I intend
>     it to work. I certainly don't know enough about the specifics and
>     peculiarities of rc.
>
>     I made a script, named sysupgrade, that does what's in dash1,
>     section 5.2.2: "Building from source".
>
> ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------
> #!/bin/rc
>
> sysupdate
>
> # create any missing directories needed for the build
> cd /
> . /sys/lib/rootstub
>
> # build everything
> cd /sys/src
> mk install
> mk clean
>
> # build manpage indices
> cd /sys/man
> mk
> ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------
>
>     But, unfortunately it fails to execute everything so I usually
>     type them one by one... (well, today the compilation fails anyway).
>
>     Can someone explain or tell me what I did wrong ?
>
> Thomas.
>
>

Are you building your own 9front from source or simply keeping your
existing installation up to date? If the latter then you just cd
/sys/src ; sysupdate && mk install && mk clean

Of course this does not build the kernel which you must perform manually.