Remove absolute symlink in $MAKEOBJDIR
David O'Brien
obrien at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jun 1 23:33:11 PDT 2003
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 02:13:55PM +0900, Jun Kuriyama wrote:
>
> In usual buildworld, we have absolute symbolic links in $MAKEOBJDIR.
> This causes built $MAKEOBJDIR can use to install the world on other
> boxen only if same /usr/src (or etc.) location and same $MAKEOBJDIR.
>
> I'm using this patch for months to avoid this situation.
>
> (1) Copy man pages rather than absolute symlinks.
I prefer the ln's over cp. Are you sure this is the only reason for the
same $MAKEOBJDIR requirement? Also, typically one sets MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX,
not MAKEOBJDIR. Are you sure you're using the right one for what you're
wanting to do?
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-- David (obrien at FreeBSD.org)
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