Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 20:03:57 +0200 From: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: make release: doesn't work for me, getting recursive looping Message-ID: <4DFCE88D.1040600@zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <4DFCC5BE.4070608@freebsd.org> References: <4DFC7AAA.5070608@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <4DFCC5BE.4070608@freebsd.org>
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On 06/18/11 17:35, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 06/18/11 05:15, Hartmann, O. wrote: >> Try to build a cdrom from most recent CURRENT/amd64 sources. >> >> Issuing the follwing command fails the build process looping >> recursively and indefinitely within the source folder /usr/src/release: >> >> make release cdrom CHROOTDIR=/unused/release/9.0/ SVNROOT/usr/src >> BUILDNAME=9.0-CURRENT RELEASETAG=RELENG_9 NOPORTS=YES NODOC=YES >> >> The chrooted folder is empty and as the doc says, it should be the >> location where the release should be build. Since I do not use CVS >> anymore, but SVN, I use SVNROOT instead of CVSROOT to point to the >> location of the sources. >> > > This is not how release building works anymore. See release(7). If you > want to do something analagous to the old-style make release, with SVN > checkouts and a chroot, which you seem to wan to do, you need to use > generate-release.sh. You can also use make release to build a system > out of the current source directory by simply doing make release > NOPORTS=yes NODOC=yes. > > The reason it is hanging is that one of the sub-targets invoked by > make cdrom requires that make obj be run first. make release protects > against this, but manually invoking sub-targets does not. > -Nathan Thanks a lot. I'm new to this and I remember the old style, but the new one seems to be more sophisticated and 'clean'. Oliver
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