ports/emulators/linux_base-8 install problem

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Mar 17), Brooks Davis said:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 03:42:48PM -0800, John Prather wrote:
> > Any reason linux_base-8 insists upon successfully using mknod in
> > the installation in directories in the WRKDIRPREFIX, which may or
> > may not be mounted with nodev option, and in my case resides within
> > a jail, where mknod reports:
> > 
> > mknod: 
> > /usr/local/ports/work/usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/work/linux_base-8-8.0/dev/null:  Operation not permitted
> > 
> > Perhaps, since 5.x has been out for a while, some way of getting
> > linux_base to use devfs instead of mknod might be nice?  I am told
> > 6.x won't allow mknod at all, regardless of jail presence.
> 
> Yah, this needs to go away.  In 6.x you can make device nodes with
> mknod, they just aren't useful on FreeBSD >=6 (you can export them to
> other systems or stick them in tarballs, etc.)
> 
> I suspect we're actually going to need a lindevfs eventually.

I don't even have a /compat/linux/dev directory, and everything seems
to work just fine.

The Makefile comment above the line that creates /dev/null mentions
something about a chroot, but I see no chroot anywhere.  I say just
remove that whole block from the Makefile.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com