rebuilding world - is "chflags -R noschg *" necessary?

[Rob Farmer]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 04:02, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> The fbsd manual states in section 24.7 Rebuilding "world":
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
>
> in subsection 24.7.6 Remove /usr/obj
>
> *quote*
> Some files below /usr/obj may have the immutable flag set (see chflags(1) for more information) which must be removed first.
>
> # cd /usr/obj
> # chflags -R noschg *
> *end quote*
>
> I've never seen a file under /usr/obj/ with immutable flag set.
>
> Why would there be object files with immutable flag set?
> Is this step really necessary?

It will happen on amd64 if you build the lib32 bits (i386
compatibility libraries).

-- 
Rob Farmer

>
> many thanks
> anton
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