Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 21:19:04 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net>, Randy DuCharme <randyd@nconnect.net> Subject: Re: Make world failure Message-ID: <199709281149.VAA05954@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 Sep 1997 11:33:56 %2B0100." <l03020902b053de92bb3e@[194.32.164.2]>
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> Actually, I cd to /usr/obj and rm -rf *. It refuses to remove several leaf > files, citing "Operation not permitted" (errno 1 I assume). But I'm root! > > As it happens, I keep /usr/obj on a separate filesystem connected up by a > symlink. So I unmount the sucker, clri these odd files, fsck the thing back > to normal, remount and do the rm -rf. It's normally much easier just to 'chflags -R nochg /usr/obj', as there are several objects (eg. libc) that are installed in the temporary build area with the system-immutable flag set. > This is where it gets interesting: the build still fails in exactly the > same way. There are no unremovable files below /usr/obj now, but this time > I blow away the directory which is the target of my /usr/obj symlink as > well as points south (and remake the directory, of course). Now everything > works. Wierd or what? Sounds like your symlink target's permissions were "unhappy". Yes weird, but hard to actually debug once you've deleted it all. mikehome | help
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