Unable to build world someplace not /usr/obj

[Lee Brown]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 11:52 PM, Herbert J. Skuhra <herbert at gojira.at>
wrote:

> 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
>
Thank you for that.  I slapped my forehead in shame.