Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:52:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Barry Bouwsma <freebsd-misuser@remove-NOSPAM-to-reply.NOSPAM.dyndns.dk> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DISTDIR Message-ID: <200408111152.i7BBq0l44279@Mail.NOSPAM.DynDNS.dK> References: <20040810231044.GA70020@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040811061202.GA80234@ip.net.ua> <20040811065912.GA95263@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040811080350.GK80234@ip.net.ua> <200408110916.i7B9GTj43770@Mail.NOSPAM.DynDNS.dK> <20040811101100.GB84908@ip.net.ua><20040811111803.GJ84908@ip.net.ua>
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> OTOH, if you want some knob for > /etc/make.conf to control what MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX will be set > to during buildworld and related targets, this should be > possible easily, though I personally don't see much point > in yet another variable. I believe this would make you (or whoever comes up with it) immensely popular, judging from the responses over the past hours. The advantage is that things would still ``work'' if one were to forget the commandline -- `make buildworld' would just do what the user wants. Like if I mis-type `make -DNOKERNEL_CLEAN buildkernel' on a slow machine. And then pull my hair when it takes hours to get to the point where I was. How many times have I typed `env MAKROBJDIRPREFIX=foo' in the dark and cursed myself when I realized what's wrong. > > > DISTDIR is only used by "make distribute", and the latter > > Ah, that I had been using `make distribute' or similar in > > order to populate DESTDIR/etc after a `make installworld', > > which is probably not what I should have been doing. (After > The correct spelling would be "make distrib-dirs && make > distribution" while in /usr/src/etc, but it does not use > DISTDIR either. "make distibute" while in /usr/src/etc > uses DISTDIR, but it should not be called by the end user, This is what I noticed, not knowing which was right, when I was testing to see what worked. Anyway, then I did the `make distribution' with success -- I believe the `distrib-dirs' step was part of the `installworld'. If not, I'll be doing it all again next buildworld, just for practice... First I tried the `SUBDIR_OVERRIDE' or whatever you mentioned earlier as part of `build everything' for a failed build in the top-level src directory. Like I say, I didn't know what to do so I was trying out different things in hope of getting something right, particularly as not everything works in the subdirectories as in the top-level directory. Thanks for the clarification, and straightening everything up. barry bouwsma
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