make release problems (amd64)

[O. Hartmann]

On 26.03.2011 05:32, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> Has anyone done one recently?
>
> I note there aren't any snapshots for this month, so perhaps I'm not alone.
>
> I tried this :-
> RELNAME=9.0
> BUILDNAME=${RELNAME}-GENESIS
> make release CHROOTDIR=/tmp/${RELNAME}-release BUILDNAME=$BUILDNAME HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy:3128 FTP_PROXY=http://proxy:3128 EXTSRCDIR=/usr/src
> EXTPORTSDIR=/usr/ports EXTDOCDIR=/usr/doc NOPORTS=YES MAKE_ISOS=YES
>
> However it appears to have started recursively taring up /usr/src/release/dist :-/
>
> [snip]
> a ./boot/kernel/linker.hints
> mv /usr/src/release/dist/kernel.txz /usr/src/release
> mkdir -p /usr/src/release/dist/usr
> ln -fs /usr/src/release/.. /usr/src/release/dist/usr/src
> cd /usr/src/release/dist&&  tar cLvJf /usr/src/release/src.txz --exclude .svn  --exclude CVS usr/
> src
> a usr/src
> a usr/src/usr.bin
> a usr/src/release
> ...
> a usr/src/release/dist/usr/src/release/dist/usr/src/release/dist/usr/src/release/dist/usr/src/release/dist/usr/src/release/dist/usr/src/release/dist/usr/src/release/dist/usr/src/release/dist/usr/src/release/dist/usr/src/release/dist/usr/src/release/lib32.txz
> a usr/src/release/dist/usr/src/release/dist/usr/src/release/dist/usr/src/release/dist/usr/src/release/dist/usr/src/release/dist/usr/src/release/dist/usr/src/release/dist/usr/src/release/dist/usr/src/release/dist/usr/src/release/dist/usr/src/release/kernel.txz
>
> then I killed it.
>
> I'm not sure why it's putting stuff in /usr/src/release rather than /tmp/9.0-GENESIS or /usr/obj somewhere..
>
> --
> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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Hello.

Yes, I tried and I ran into the same problems. But I didn't run into 
problems lately, the problem resists for me now for approx. three weeks 
or so and I reported this in "questions@" once.

Oliver