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Date:      Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:13:11 -0700
From:      "Matthew Jacob" <lydianconcepts@gmail.com>
To:        "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=" <des@des.no>
Cc:        FreeBSD Tinderbox <tinderbox@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: help for the lame
Message-ID:  <7579f7fb0604271113r5435f861k7f90eaf41d9d46de@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <868xpr9o04.fsf@xps.des.no>
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*shrug*

It's how it finally started to work for me.


On 4/27/06, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> wrote:
> "Matthew Jacob" <lydianconcepts@gmail.com> writes:
> > I finally got this working correctly. What I found I had to do was to
> > create a 'tinderbox' user and group and run as that user.
>
> No, there is no such requirement.
>

In order for 'make install' to actually work you have to have a group
name the same as your username, an item peculiar to the BSDs.

> > Interesting, considering I don't need to do that in doing a
> > buildworld, but I guess I have something in my environment that
> > poisons tinderbox builds if I run as me.
>
> The tinderbox scripts clear the environment before running the build.
>
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
>



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