make install: tar: could not chdir to '(null)'

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 03:12:41AM +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 00:38:54 +0100 (CET) Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> 
> > A few days ago, my FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE based tester (i386) started to fail 
> > in building packages, most notably lang/gcc40, lang/gcc41 and above.
> 
> >   % make install
> >   ldconfig: /files/pfeifer/porttest/gcc40/lib/gcc-4.0.4: ignoring directory not owned by root
> >   ldconfig: mkstemp(/var/run/ld-elf.so.hints.iWE9fy): Permission denied
> >   % make package
> >   ===>  Building package for gcc-4.0.4,1
> >   tar: could not chdir to '(null)'
> 
> >   pkg_create: make_dist: tar command failed with code 256
> >   Creating package /sw/test/FreeBSD/ports/pcvs/gcc40/gcc-4.0.4,1.tbz
> >   Registering depends: ldconfig_compat-1.0_8 libiconv-1.9.2_2.
> >   Creating bzip'd tar ball in '/sw/test/FreeBSD/ports/pcvs/gcc40/gcc-4.0.4,1.tbz'
> >   *** Error code 1
> 
> > Has any of you ever seen anything like this?  This also affects ports
> > which test just fine on other machines (6-CURRENT, for example) and
> > have been testing fine on this machine.
> 
> > I tried to track this down, but failed so far.  From what I can tell,
> > there have been no changes on this machines which might trigger this.
> 
> A CPU cooler full of dust / mulfunctionning?

No :-) One of the changes in the last b.p.m patch presumably doesn't
work on FreeBSD <6.

Kris
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