make installworld for non-root user

Harti Brandt harti at freebsd.org
Wed Jul 7 03:51:22 PDT 2004


On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

RE>On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:17:00AM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote:
RE>> to install.sh, because it seems that the installworld target uses the 
RE>> currently installed mk files not those from src/share/mk.
RE>> 
RE>Not until you call installworld with "make -fMakefile.inc1 ...".
RE>Normally, src/Makefile is used and it calls installworld with
RE>-m${.CURDIR}/share/mk.  You can verify with ``make -n installworld''.

So that was probably just a pilot error from me.

RE>> The SHAREOWN SHAREGRP is needed because share/zoneinfo/Makefile passes
RE>> these directly to zic. This could probably be fixed by calling zic
RE>> during buildworld and just install the compiled files during installworld.
RE>> 
RE>Yes, I've been thinking of doing this for some years now.  I will see if
RE>I can fix it easily, now that I have a good reason for it. ;)

Would be nice.. I'm currently stuck to use panther to test my patches for sparc
(my sparcs are still in Berlin) and I want to make sure that I don't break
installworld at least.

Thanks,
harti


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