On 29-Nov-00 Gray, David W. wrote:
> Hmmm, I'm specifically talking about when you have MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX set to
> something other than /usr/obj - it *almost* works, but /bin/sh uses files
> generated on-the-fly that get put in the wrong places (in the chroot'ed
> hierarchy). (ONLY when building the crunches - makeworld
> runs fine.) I suppose its beating a dead horse (got around
> it with a symlink or two) but it niggles - but that
> whole environment is just too twisted to follow. :(
Hmmm. I bet the MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX is getting propagated into the chroot and it
is dying in there because of that.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Baldwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 12:10 PM
> To: Gray, David W.
> Cc: FreeBSD Current list
> Subject: RE: more make release
>
>
>
> On 29-Nov-00 Gray, David W. wrote:
>> BTW, is it considered a bug or a feature that you MUST use /usr/obj to
>> have make release work? I went in circles for quite a while before
> figuring
>> this out (I just didn't have much room in /usr, so was using the make env
>> variable to move the obj tree. It failed in various amusing ways whilst
>> building the crunches - in particular, the generated files for /bin/sh
> don't
>> go to the right places, and the makefile setup is too tangled for my tiny
>> brain.)
>
> Feature. make release starts off by doing an installworld into the chroot'd
> area and using that area to do a cleanroom make world from which the release
> bits are rolled.
>
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