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Date:      Tue, 17 Jun 1997 00:35:28 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
To:        mh@muenster.net (Marcus Haebler)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make world on FreeBSD-2.2-stable failed
Message-ID:  <199706162235.AAA24323@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970616233345.19636A-100000@ns.muenster.net> from Marcus Haebler at "Jun 16, 97 11:55:08 pm"

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> Hi,
> 
> I just downloaded the FreeBSD-2.2-stable source to a directory
> /data/cache/FreeBSD. Worked fine so far. cvsup created a src and
> a sup directory for me. Then I tried "make world". Unfortunately
> it broke after a few lines:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> make world started on Mon Jun 16 23:38:56 MET DST 1997
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>  Making hierarchy
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> cd /data/cache/FreeBSD/src && make hierarchy
> cd /data/cache/FreeBSD/src/etc &&               make distrib-dirs
> mtree -deU -f /data/cache/FreeBSD/src/etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist -p /
> mtree -deU -f /data/cache/FreeBSD/src/etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist -p /var
> 
> mtree: unknown group mail
> mtree: failed at line 37 of the specification

You have to add the group `mail' to the file /etc/group with
group id 6.

> As far as I can see make distrib-dirs in etc fails because it somehow
> seems to list /var and create some kind of list out of it and mail
> is not supposed to be a group in that list. What destination is the
> DESTDIR variable exactly refering to? Anyway, the most important thing
> is: How do I get the stuff to compile??? Is there any documentation out
> there on this subject? 

The make files are pretty good documented, especially /usr/src/Makefile
and the files in /usr/share/mk.

> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Marcus Haebler
> 
> 




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