Building in /usr/src copied to $HOME
Max Laier
max at love2party.net
Wed Mar 19 21:12:48 UTC 2008
On Wednesday 19 March 2008 05:36:47 Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2008-03-18 21:28, V??clav Haisman <v.haisman at sh.cvut.cz> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am trying to use /usr/src copied to my $HOME but the build process
> > doesn't want to work. For example when I try build /bin/cp I get the
> > following:
> >
> > shell::wilx:~/freebsd/src/bin/cp> make
> > "/usr/home/users/wilx/freebsd/src/bin/cp/../Makefile.inc", line 9:
> > Malformed conditional (${MK_DYNAMICROOT} == "no")
> > "/usr/share/mk/bsd.init.mk", line 15: if-less endif
> > make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
Looks like a problem with /usr/share/mk being out of date (not sure this
should be an issue, though). A simple fix should be to add "-m
`pwd`/share/mk" to make ... or "-m `pwd`/../../share/mk" in your example
above. The buildworld target seems to pick this automatically.
> > Is there any sort of tutorial/prescription anywhere how to use
> > /usr/src tree that does not reside in /usr/src?
>
> Hmmm, that should work. I regularly build as a non-root user, at
> `/home/build/src'.
>
> The error about ``Malformed conditional'' seems a bit odd too. Are you
> using /usr/bin/make? What version of FreeBSD is the build host
> running, and what version of the source tree have you checked out?
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