From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 16 15:35:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA06725 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 15:35:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.166.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA06720 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 15:35:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from helbig@localhost) by helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA24323; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 00:35:29 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig Message-Id: <199706162235.AAA24323@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Subject: Re: make world on FreeBSD-2.2-stable failed In-Reply-To: from Marcus Haebler at "Jun 16, 97 11:55:08 pm" To: mh@muenster.net (Marcus Haebler) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 00:35:28 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 > >