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Date:      Wed, 10 Sep 2025 06:29:51 -0700
From:      Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com>
To:        Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFC: building with non-default options on universe machines?
Message-ID:  <CAM5tNy4OKnWgHOCyQr=uttMSfdkucEMa3aTm4hjMUNvqLDrNcw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On 9/9/25 11:54, Rick Macklem wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is a really dump question, but since I've tried a
> > few times without success, I figured I'd ask..
> >
> > I need to do a "make buildworld" with WITHOUT_MITKRB5="yes"
> > set. I'd like to do it on one of the unverse machines, but I cannot
> > get it to work.
> >
> > I put WITHOUT_MITKRB5="yes" in a file and tried both
> > SRCCONF=../src.conf and __MAKE_CONF=../src.conf.
> > They both would fail at some point, because other things
> > that depend on the setting would fail.
> >
> > So, does anyone know what the trick is?
> >
>
> Is ".." literal or a placeholder?  We probably don't resolve those to an
> absolute path for later parts of the build, so you probably want to do that
> up-front if you hadn't tried that yet -- MK_* knobs may be processed in some
> or many contexts where cwd isn't the root of the src tree.
Yep. Thanks. This worked. Once I used SRCCONF=/home/rmacklem/src.conf
the build completed.

I'll admit I would never have thought of this.

Thanks, rick

>
> Thanks,
>
> Kyle Evans


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