RELENG_7_0 buildworld failure on read only source tree

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Tom Judge wrote:

> Xin LI wrote:
>> Tom Judge wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> We have been building RELENG_6_x source trees from read only NFS file 
>>> systems for well over a year now with out any problems.  However I have 
>>> just tried to do "make buildworld" on a RELENG_7_0 source tree from 
>>> yesterday and it failed to build with the following error:
>>> 
>> [error snipped]
>>> 
>>> Should it be possible to build RELENG_7_0 with a read only source tree?
>> 
>> This can be worked around, I think touching the Makefile would do the 
>> trick.  IIRC David (cc'ed) has fixed the Makefile at some point this 
>> January while he is updating the base cvs(1) for this exact issue, maybe we 
>> should MFC the changeset to RELENG_7?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>
>
> Thanks for the response,  it was indeed just a case of touching 
> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/contrib/Makefile.  Do you have the information about 
> the relevent change sets that fix this?  Then I can merge this fix to my 
> local tree.

I think it was this change:

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200801130945.m0D9jsgf040114

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                 bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT
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