Re: buildkernel with PORTS_MODULES fails: Variable OBJTOP is recursive

Hello, Oliver!

On Fri, Feb 02, 2018, O. Hartmann wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 12:10:30 +0300
> Vladimir Zakharov <zakharov.vv_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> > 
> > For some time (about a week) building and installing kernel fails with
> > the error "Variable OBJTOP is recursive." when going to build/install
> > module from ports.
> > 
> > Last successful build was at r328426. Next build at r328527 failed and
> > still broken at r328649.
> > 
> > Without PORTS_MODULES building and installing kernel succeeds. Another
> > workaround: ignore error and build/install module directly from ports.
> > 
> 
> I have had the very same issue!
> 
> You need to perform a "installworld" first (just comment out the PORTS_MODULES=
> parts of /etc/src.conf or /etc/make.conf, buildworld and buildkernel (maybe not
> a full buildworld, but I do not know the state of your source tree) and perform
> a regular installation of the world.  It could be something easier by direkctly
> install-only the mk-portions, but recently, some changes to world (LLVM) made
> it worth anyway to buildworld.
> 
> As recommended by others earlier on this list according to this subject, this
> procedure makes the problem go away.

Thanks for your answer. Unfortunately, this didn't help.

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