From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 14 19:14:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4212437B40E for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 19:14:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from galilee.polands.org (CPE-24-208-57-240.new.rr.com [24.208.57.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54F1643F85 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 19:14:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from email.polands.org (samaria.polands.org [172.16.1.17]) by galilee.polands.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h3F2F6ti019403; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 21:15:07 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from 172.16.1.33 (SquirrelMail authenticated user djp) by email.polands.org with HTTP; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 21:14:55 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <1754.172.16.1.33.1050372895.squirrel@email.polands.org> In-Reply-To: <200304141856.34264.kstewart@owt.com> References: <1593.172.16.1.33.1050370775.squirrel@email.polands.org> <200304141856.34264.kstewart@owt.com> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 21:14:55 -0500 (CDT) From: "Doug Poland" To: "Kent Stewart" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make install port question across nfs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 02:14:57 -0000 Kent Stewart said: > On Monday 14 April 2003 06:39 pm, Doug Poland > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to build a port on a fast machine >> and export the /usr/ports /usr/src /usr/obj via >> nfs to a number of slower machines. After >> running make on the fast machine, I want to do >> a make install on the slower boxes. >> > > What I have found is that they know the true > path. So, if you nfs_mount, it has to have the > same path as the system that built it. I mount > fs'es all of the time but I mount the fs as > /usr/src and /usr/ports on both machines. Then, > when you cd /usr/ports/x11 and do a pwd, you see > what you cded into. > > Kent > That's how I do it too. A pwd in a directory like /usr/ports/sysutils/apcupsd shows the same on all machines. Just for grins I tried a make clean ; make; make install on one of the slow boxes. When I did a make install on the other slow box then it "worked", i.e., it installed the port. So why is a make on one machine recognized and not another? Strange to a mere mortal like me. -- Regards, Doug