buildworld broken
Steve Kargl
sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Sun Nov 8 22:43:35 UTC 2015
On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 11:43:16AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 10:28:17AM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > ...
> > Back to trying to build freebsd. I have discovered that
> > 'make buildworld' is simply broken if one attempts to use
> > a symlink for /usr/obj. At least doing doing
> >
> > % rm -rf /usr/obj
> > % ln -s /mnt/obj /usr/obj
> > % cd /usr/src
> > % nice make -j2 buildworld
> >
> > with /mnt a UFS2 file system on a USB2 disk yields errors of the
> > above form.
>
> My laptop -- where I build stable/10 & head daily -- is set up so that:
>
> g1-252(10.2-S)[1] ls -lT /usr/obj
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14 Jul 19 06:39:21 2015 /usr/obj -> /common/S1/obj
> g1-252(10.2-S)[2]
>
> In this case, /tmp is tmpfs and all others are UFS2+SU.
>
> > If one does
> >
> > % rm -rf /usr/obj
> > % setenv OBJDIR /mnt/obj
> > % cd /usr/src
> > % nice make -j2 buildworld
> >
> > works. So, it appears soemthing inside the make infrastructure cannot
> > follow symlinks. This used to work.
>
> In such cases, my first suspect is (ab)use of realpath.
>
Thanks for the response. Perhaps, you're right.
I have no problem with changing my build methods to use
OBJDIR instead of a symlink. Hopefully, whatever is
broken in the make infrastructure won't have problems with
the symlink from /usr/ports/distfiles to /mnt/distfiles.
--
Steve
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