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From: mark thompson <thompson@tgsoft.com>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: building 2.2
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I am trying to build 2.2 on a 2.1.6.1 system... 

I have an isolated build tree that is more or less copied from my system
root. I type:

chroot /u/build2.2/Root \
    sh -c 'cd /usr/src && make -DNOPROFILE "-DSHARED=copies" world'

It take off and things proceed apace for a while, then:

===> gnu/usr.bin/groff/troff
rm -f a.out Errs errs mklog troff env.o node.o input.o div.o symbol.o dictionary.o reg.o number.o majorminor.o majorminor.cc troff.1 troff.1.gz
rm -f .depend tags
===> gnu/usr.bin/groff/devX100
"Makefile", line 6: Could not find /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/devX100/../../../../contrib/groff/devX100/Makefile.sub
Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
*** Error code 1

Stop.

The proximate cause of this is that the makefile is trying to .include
"${DIST_DIR}/Makefile.sub" and this is set in ../Makefile.inc to:
GROFF_DIST?=	${.CURDIR}/../../../../contrib/groff
DIST_DIR=	${GROFF_DIST}/${.CURDIR:T}

There are other problems during the clean step because in
src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/Makefile.inc the following appears:

.if !defined(GCCDIR)
GCCDIR=		${.CURDIR}/../../../../contrib/gcc
.PATH:		../cc_tools ${GCCDIR} ${GCCDIR}/cp ${GCCDIR}/objc

Who is supposed to be setting these variables? Or am i supposed to have
a contrib directory?

Please respond to thompson@sd.znet.com

-mark