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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject: Re: bin/1398: .OBJDIR modifications to tree broke make reinstall?
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The following reply was made to PR bin/1398; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, hsu@clinet.fi
Cc:  Subject: Re: bin/1398: .OBJDIR modifications to tree broke make reinstall?
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 12:40:27 +1000

 >Assuming this has something to do with OBJDIR modifications a while
 >back I tried adding them, but getting past 3-4 similar problems I gave
 >up, it seems that there are lots of broken places like this (and
 >OBJDIR points to source directories sometimes, so this would not
 >help).  What could be causing this?
 
 Canonicalization of directory names.
 
 >>How-To-Repeat:
 
 >On machine A
 
 >make world
 
 >On machine B
 
 >mount A:/usr /mnt
 >cd /usr
 >mv obj obj-orig
 >mv src src-orig
 >ln -s /mnt/obj obj
 >ln -s /mnt/src src
 >cd /usr/src
 >make reinstall
 
 The sources are in /usr/src-orig, so the objects should be in
 /usr/obj/usr/src-orig, but you built them in /usr/obj/usr/src.
 
 >>Fix:
 
 Maybe another symlink or three:
 
 /mnt/obj/usr/src -> /mnt/obj/usr/src-orig
 ...?
 
 Bruce