make installworld fails error 126

[Matthew Seaman]

B. Cook wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I have always had this problem on the one or two (web) servers that I
> have a separate /tmp partition defined.
> 
> I found the answer a long time ago to "unmount /tmp and try again" and
> that always works.. but I've never found a way to make installworld with
> a separate /tmp partition on my systems.
> 
> Is there a way?
> Is it something I'm doing?
> Is it the nosuid? or noexec?
> Can I tell installworld to use /var/tmp instead?
> ..etc..
> 
> Ultimately I am looking to be able to 'make installworld' like I do on
> my other boxes.. if I need something in /etc/make.conf to tell it not to
> use /tmp what is it.. b/c I've not found it..
> 
> [~]$ 2 > grep tmp /etc/fstab
> /dev/ad0s1f     /tmp            ufs     rw,nosuid,noexec        2       2
                                                    ^^^^^^
There's your problem.  make buildworld needs to be able to execute programs
that it writes into /tmp.  Simply re-mount /tmp without the noexec flag and
all should be well. 

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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