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Date:      Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:10:49 -0500
From:      Barney Wolff <barney@pit.databus.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        Mike Bytnar <mbytnar@auvo.com>, FreeBSD <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 'make installworld' fails over NFS mount
Message-ID:  <20010206201049.A28861@pit.databus.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010206155841.C26076@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 03:58:41PM -0800
References:  <3A808528.C51E4FBF@auvo.com> <20010206155841.C26076@fw.wintelcom.net>

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If we're complaining about make and/or makefiles, I discovered that
setting WRKDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj in /etc/make.conf causes most or
all of the port builds to break horribly.  /usr/obj/xyz is fine.
I was unable to follow make's debugging output to see what caused it.

Barney Wolff

On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 03:58:41PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
 ...
> > Is there a workaround for this problem?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> This bug has been in the tree for quite some time now, basically
> you have to have the nfs mount over the same location as the nfs
> server's build location.
> 
> so if on the server you really have:
> 
> /usr/src -> /vol/src
> /usr/obj -> /vol/obj
> 
> on the client you'll need to have
> 
> /usr/src -> /vol/src
> /usr/obj -> /vol/obj
> 
> and you'll need to mount the nfs share on /vol/src and /vol/obj on
> the client otherwise it breaks.
> 
> Btw, this bug is terribly annoying, it's been around for so long
> that I've given up on tracking down how/where it happened and
> who did it.  If anyone can figure out a way to fix this, it'd be
> nice.


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