Re: buildworld broken

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