problems building website

Lowell Gilbert lgusenet at be-well.ilk.org
Mon Aug 22 20:32:55 UTC 2005


"Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at FreeBSD.org> writes:

> On 2005.08.22 14:02:00 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > I can't seem to build the www collection.  The only faintly unusual
> > thing I'm doing is using openjade, but that part seems to go fine.
> > It's the installation of the documents that fails; apparently because
> > it's trying to install the documents to the wrong directory.
> > 
> > Can anyone explain what else I should be doing?
> 
> I think the problem is rather magic use of DESTDIR in the doc/www
> build.  Try setting DESTDIR as an environment variable instead, that
> might fix it, though I haven't tried - I just have my webserver point
> to the default dir.

Aha.  You are correct.

I submitted a patch for the instructions with this and one other small
change, as PR 85232.

Thank you!



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