The build of the companion cd does NOT require /usr/local. I build the companion daily on systems with no /usr/local. In the top build, there is a patch that installs top in /opt/sfw/bin, not /usr/local/bin.
I would need to have more details about the steps you did to do the build exactly, what level of opensolaris you are using, what companion packages you installed prior to the build etc. Steve Christensen Gordon Marler wrote: > Following the procedure to build the Companion CD, I've noticed that the > build has been hanging about halfway through, filling up /tmp (and thus > swap), and generally putting the system in an unusable state. > > Looking at the build logs, I noted that the log for SFWtop is a couple of GB > - looking further, it appears that if the system you're building the > Companion CD on doesn't have a /usr/local directory, then the build of SFWtop > goes into an infinite loop running "getans", looking for /usr/local/bin, > /usr/local/man/man1, etc - seems like this should get fixed, as not all > systems will (or should) have /usr/local. The build certainly shouldn't die > over this. > > Gordon Marler > gmarler at gmarler.com > -- > This messages posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > companion-discuss mailing list > companion-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/companion-discuss >
