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Date:      Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:36:58 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Gray, David W." <David_W_Gray@tvratings.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current list <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   RE: more make release
Message-ID:  <XFMail.001129093658.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <01D4D419B1A4D111A30400805FE65B13070AC0E8@nmrusdunsx1.nielsenmedia.com>

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On 29-Nov-00 Gray, David W. wrote:
> Hmmm, I'm specifically talking about when you have MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX set to 
> something other than /usr/obj - it *almost* works, but /bin/sh uses files 
> generated on-the-fly that get put in the wrong places (in the chroot'ed 
> hierarchy). (ONLY when building the crunches - makeworld
> runs fine.) I suppose its beating a dead horse (got around 
> it with a symlink or two) but it niggles - but that 
> whole environment is just too twisted to follow. :(

Hmmm.  I bet the MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX is getting propagated into the chroot and it
is dying in there because of that.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Baldwin [mailto:jhb@FreeBSD.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 12:10 PM
> To: Gray, David W.
> Cc: FreeBSD Current list
> Subject: RE: more make release
> 
> 
> 
> On 29-Nov-00 Gray, David W. wrote:
>> BTW, is it considered a bug or a feature that you MUST use /usr/obj to
>> have make release work? I went in circles for quite a while before
> figuring
>> this out (I just didn't have much room in /usr, so was using the make env 
>> variable to move the obj tree. It failed in various amusing ways whilst 
>> building the crunches - in particular, the generated files for /bin/sh
> don't
>> go to the right places, and the makefile setup is too tangled for my tiny
>> brain.)
> 
> Feature.  make release starts off by doing an installworld into the chroot'd
> area and using that area to do a cleanroom make world from which the release
> bits are rolled.
> 
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> 
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