Re: kernel building sync

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <18538.1487854824%andromeda.noi.kre.to@localhost>,
Robert Elz  <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost> wrote:
>Back in early March, 2004, a "sync" was added to src/etc/Makefile
>in the recipe for linking kernels (I won't even bother to ask what
>anything relating to linking kernels is doing there...)
>
>The log message (with a similar comment in the source) is ...
>
>	sync after building kernels.  on some host systems (Linux) on NFS
>	have been seen to fail with the error:
>	    pax: File ./netbsd was modified during copy to archive
>	and this avoids it.
>
>It should really say "after beinging each kernel" though for the
>purpose explained, what it says (but doesn't do) would make more sense.
>
>But do we believe that linux is still that broken, almost 13 years later,
>and that perhaps we could do away with that now ?

I also think that they should be removed.

christos