make distribution and cap_mkdb -l from 5 to 6
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
Sat Aug 13 08:54:18 GMT 2005
Hi,
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 12:33:08AM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> I was giving a try to the sysutils/etcmerge port in order to ease the
> upgrade of /etc from RELENG_5 to RELENG_6. This revealed me that the
> ``distribution'' target in RELENG_6's src/etc/Makefile calls cap_mkdb(8)
> with either "-l" or "-L" flag, depending on endianess. Unfortunately
> RELENG_5's cap_mkdb(8) doesn't have this flag and this resulted.
>
> I understand that using RELENG_6 sources on RELENG_5 is something quite
> unusual but it's quite disconcerting and prevents me from using
> etcmerge. I would really like to avoid merging /etc manually since I
> have number of changes in my /etc and number of changes between 5's /etc
> and 6's one are both huge. Yes, I know mergemaster(8), that's what I
> call ``manually'' :-).
>
I don't remember exactly how etcmerge works, but if it calls "make
distribution" from src/etc/, it's in trouble, please go on reading...
> Can this issue be resolved in a way or another ? I'm not sure using
> ${.OBJDIR}'s cap_mkdb(8) is an option.
>
You should be running "make distribution" from under top of the src/
tree, not src/etc/. This takes care of properly setting the runtime
environment up so that a bootstrapped version of cap_mkdb(8) is used,
besides many other useful things. We bootstrap cap_mkdb(8) if (this
was copied from Makefile.inc1):
.if ${BOOTSTRAPPING} < 600015
_cap_mkdb= usr.bin/cap_mkdb
.endif
It may also be that for some reason your /usr/include/osreldate.h is
lying about the currently installed version.
To make the long story short...
You can check all of this easily; assuming your sources are in the
kosher location /usr/src, the bootstrapped version of cap_mkdb(8)
capable of running on your host should be sitting ready in:
/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/bin/cap_mkdb
(Extrapolate this appropriately to your environment.)
Cheers,
--
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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