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Date:      Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:18:08 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>, svn-src-stable-9@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r248352 - in stable/9: etc share/mk
Message-ID:  <201303200918.08803.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130319200631.GC80942@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
References:  <201303152132.r2FLWfwx076672@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1303192148030.39428@woozle.rinet.ru> <20130319200631.GC80942@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>

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On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 4:06:31 pm Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 09:49:47PM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > 
> > > > >   Replace all known uses of ln in the build process with appropriate
> > > > >   install -l invocations via new INSTALL_LINK and INSTALL_SYMLINK
> > > > >   variables.
> > > > 
> > > > It seems this merge breaks ``make distribution'' and hence mergemaster if your 
> > > > base system is not updated yet (for example, while updating jail):
> > > 
> > > Sorry for the delay in responding.  I missed this yesterday.
> > > 
> > > It works for me on a older 9.0-STABLE system where the base install
> > > doesn't support -l.  Did you build world or run "make toolchain" in that
> > > source tree to build the bootstrap copy of install?
> > 
> > Yes, this is after full ``make buildworld buildkernel'' process.
> 
> I've found the problem thanks to misc/177055.  It is that mergemaster
> (and etcupdate) set MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX to something in their
> temporary directory and thus deprive themselves of bootstrap tools.
> Unfortunately, I don't see a trivial fix so I've backed this out for
> now and will work on this in HEAD.

Hummmm.  In the case of etcupdate you can use 'etcupdate -B'.  That is actually safe
to do in the common case where you've just updated /usr/src and built the corresponding
world in /usr/obj.  It should possibly even by the default for etcupdate if a DESTDIR
is not specified.

-- 
John Baldwin



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