Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 00:35:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De> To: mh@muenster.net (Marcus Haebler) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world on FreeBSD-2.2-stable failed Message-ID: <199706162235.AAA24323@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970616233345.19636A-100000@ns.muenster.net> from Marcus Haebler at "Jun 16, 97 11:55:08 pm"
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> Hi, > > I just downloaded the FreeBSD-2.2-stable source to a directory > /data/cache/FreeBSD. Worked fine so far. cvsup created a src and > a sup directory for me. Then I tried "make world". Unfortunately > it broke after a few lines: > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > make world started on Mon Jun 16 23:38:56 MET DST 1997 > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Making hierarchy > -------------------------------------------------------------- > cd /data/cache/FreeBSD/src && make hierarchy > cd /data/cache/FreeBSD/src/etc && make distrib-dirs > mtree -deU -f /data/cache/FreeBSD/src/etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist -p / > mtree -deU -f /data/cache/FreeBSD/src/etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist -p /var > > mtree: unknown group mail > mtree: failed at line 37 of the specification You have to add the group `mail' to the file /etc/group with group id 6. > As far as I can see make distrib-dirs in etc fails because it somehow > seems to list /var and create some kind of list out of it and mail > is not supposed to be a group in that list. What destination is the > DESTDIR variable exactly refering to? Anyway, the most important thing > is: How do I get the stuff to compile??? Is there any documentation out > there on this subject? The make files are pretty good documented, especially /usr/src/Makefile and the files in /usr/share/mk. > > Thanks in advance, > > Marcus Haebler > >
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