Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 14:43:30 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>, NGie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: buildworld broken Message-ID: <20151108224330.GA52017@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20151108194316.GD1500@albert.catwhisker.org> References: <20151101164707.GA5847@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <CD2B8B15-BFD7-48AA-BFAA-41BFE48635D7@gmail.com> <20151108182817.GA49944@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20151108194316.GD1500@albert.catwhisker.org>
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On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 11:43:16AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: > On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 10:28:17AM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > > ... > > Back to trying to build freebsd. I have discovered that > > 'make buildworld' is simply broken if one attempts to use > > a symlink for /usr/obj. At least doing doing > > > > % rm -rf /usr/obj > > % ln -s /mnt/obj /usr/obj > > % cd /usr/src > > % nice make -j2 buildworld > > > > with /mnt a UFS2 file system on a USB2 disk yields errors of the > > above form. > > My laptop -- where I build stable/10 & head daily -- is set up so that: > > g1-252(10.2-S)[1] ls -lT /usr/obj > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14 Jul 19 06:39:21 2015 /usr/obj -> /common/S1/obj > g1-252(10.2-S)[2] > > In this case, /tmp is tmpfs and all others are UFS2+SU. > > > If one does > > > > % rm -rf /usr/obj > > % setenv OBJDIR /mnt/obj > > % cd /usr/src > > % nice make -j2 buildworld > > > > works. So, it appears soemthing inside the make infrastructure cannot > > follow symlinks. This used to work. > > In such cases, my first suspect is (ab)use of realpath. > Thanks for the response. Perhaps, you're right. I have no problem with changing my build methods to use OBJDIR instead of a symlink. Hopefully, whatever is broken in the make infrastructure won't have problems with the symlink from /usr/ports/distfiles to /mnt/distfiles. -- Steve
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