help for the lame

[Matthew Jacob]

*shrug*

It's how it finally started to work for me.


On 4/27/06, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> wrote:
> "Matthew Jacob" <lydianconcepts at gmail.com> writes:
> > I finally got this working correctly. What I found I had to do was to
> > create a 'tinderbox' user and group and run as that user.
>
> No, there is no such requirement.
>

In order for 'make install' to actually work you have to have a group
name the same as your username, an item peculiar to the BSDs.

> > Interesting, considering I don't need to do that in doing a
> > buildworld, but I guess I have something in my environment that
> > poisons tinderbox builds if I run as me.
>
> The tinderbox scripts clear the environment before running the build.
>
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no
>