Compiling/installing ports via NFS - any gotcha's? (while building linux_base-8-8.0_6, "/usr/bin/build-locale-archive: cannot lock new archive: Operation not supported")

Wed Feb 2 04:15:06 PST 2005

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 05:15:19PM -0600, John typed:
> I don't have enough storage on my laptop for the entire ports tree
> (surprise, surprise), so I'm trying to "make install" acroread
> and jdk14 via NFS mounts from a bigger server.
> 
> I'm down to trying to get the specific version of linux_base that
> it wants(and I already have the linux kld loaded and linprocfs
> mounted).  I have rpc.statd and rpc.lockd running on both systems.

What version of FreeBSD are you running? AFAIK, rpc.lockd in 4.x
only handles serverside locking, not from the client.

Ruben