From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Mar 28 14: 8: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from pencil.math.missouri.edu (pencil.math.missouri.edu [128.206.49.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 582A037B718; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:07:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rich@pencil.math.missouri.edu) Received: (from rich@localhost) by pencil.math.missouri.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f2SM7vd46633; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:07:57 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from rich) From: Rich Winkel Message-Id: <200103282207.f2SM7vd46633@pencil.math.missouri.edu> Subject: Re: misc/12856: installworld over nfs broken (3.2S) In-Reply-To: <200103282135.f2SLZtf71824@freefall.freebsd.org> "from iedowse@freebsd.org at Mar 28, 2001 01:35:55 pm" To: iedowse@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:07:57 -0600 (CST) Cc: rich@math.missouri.edu, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The problem for me was that /usr/obj was symlinked to a different disk (/usr/obj -> /u2/obj) on the build machine. This caused make's dynamically generated paths to reference /u2/obj directly instead of /usr/obj, which necessitated that a symlink (/u2 -> /usr) be present on the nfs client machine in order for installworld to work. Maybe this should be pointed out somewhere. According to iedowse@freebsd.org: > Synopsis: installworld over nfs broken (3.2S) > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > State-Changed-By: iedowse > State-Changed-When: Wed Mar 28 13:32:18 PST 2001 > State-Changed-Why: > Installworld over NFS works for lots of people, though there are > a few gotchas; /etc/make.conf files on client and server must match, > and the absolute /usr/src paths must match also. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=12856 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message