Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 14:42:31 -0600 (CST) From: "Mark W. Krentel" <krentel@cs.rice.edu> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Random dives out of make world Message-ID: <199702232042.OAA15039@cs.rice.edu>
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I once had a "make world" crash because my own PRINTER environ variable was being passed on to root's environ in su. Fortunately, it was relatively easy to spot the problem because the name of my printer was showing up in the make commands and it clearly didn't belong there. That's when I learned about "su -l". The point is that there are many things that can affect a kernel or world build that aren't in the sources. Root's shell, path, aliases, environment, /etc/make.conf can all have an effect, not to mention hardware and bios settings. Mark Krentel Rice University
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