Unable to build world someplace not /usr/obj

[Herbert J. Skuhra]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 11:02:27PM -0800, Lee Brown wrote:
> I have been trying to buildworld with the following, but it always faults
> on contrib/tcsh/sh.c (not related)
> 
> make -C /scratch/11.1-releng/src MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/scratch/11.1-releng/obj
> buildworld
> 
> If I just remove the variable, it works fine, except the files don't go
> where I want of course.
> 
> make -C /scratch/11.1-releng/src buildworld
> 
> The build machine is 11.1-RELEASE (r321309) and the source is the same
> version.
> 
> Can anybody clue me into what I'm doing wrong?  I'm sure I used to do this
> no problem.  There are no packages installed, just a vanilla system.

% man make.conf

     Note, that MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX and MAKEOBJDIR are environment variables and
     should not be set in make.conf or as command line arguments to make(1),
     but in make's environment.

-- 
Herbert