svn commit: r248352 - in stable/9: etc share/mk

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Brooks Davis wrote:

> > > > >   Replace all known uses of ln in the build process with appropriate
> > > > >   install -l invocations via new INSTALL_LINK and INSTALL_SYMLINK
> > > > >   variables.
> > > > 
> > > > It seems this merge breaks ``make distribution'' and hence mergemaster if your 
> > > > base system is not updated yet (for example, while updating jail):
> > > 
> > > Sorry for the delay in responding.  I missed this yesterday.
> > > 
> > > It works for me on a older 9.0-STABLE system where the base install
> > > doesn't support -l.  Did you build world or run "make toolchain" in that
> > > source tree to build the bootstrap copy of install?
> > 
> > Yes, this is after full ``make buildworld buildkernel'' process.
> 
> I've found the problem thanks to misc/177055.  It is that mergemaster
> (and etcupdate) set MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX to something in their
> temporary directory and thus deprive themselves of bootstrap tools.
> Unfortunately, I don't see a trivial fix so I've backed this out for
> now and will work on this in HEAD.

Thank you;  hopefully some decent and balanced solution could be constructed 
for not too much effort ;)

BTW: I'm really quite happy with your efforts to make build system more 
consistent; please do not by any means treat our cryticism as stop-point.

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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