make install port question across nfs

Doug Poland doug at polands.org
Tue Apr 15 07:23:33 PDT 2003


Dan Nelson said:
> In the last episode (Apr 14), Doug Poland said:
>> I'm trying to build a port on a fast machine and export the
>> /usr/ports /usr/src /usr/obj via nfs to a number of slower
>> machines.  After running make on the fast machine, I want to do a
>> make install on the slower boxes.
>>
>> The port builds fine on the fast machine and a make install works
>> too.  What I'm seeing is the slower boxes just return a shell
>> prompt after executing make install.  Nothing happens.  Even if I
>> run make, nothing happens.  All machines are running 4.8-STABLE
>> and have identical /etc/make.conf files (attached).
>
> You need to run "make reinstall", which ignores the
> .install_done.${PKGNAME} flag created by the first "make install".
>
That was it, work/.install_done.${PKGNAME} was in the way.  Thanks
for your help everyone.

-- 
Regards,
Doug


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