Just cvs updated, made obj, made distclean, and nuked my tooldir this
morning, and this is what I got when I tried to make release:

# make release
Build started at: Wed Oct 31 09:54:53 EST 2001
(cd /usr/src/etc && make -m /usr/src/share/mk DESTDIR=/usr/destdir distrib-dirs)
install  -d -o root -g wheel -m 755 /usr/destdir
mtree -def mtree/NetBSD.dist -p /usr/destdir/ -U 
rm -f //sys
install  -l s -o root -g wheel -m 755  usr/src/sys /usr/destdir/sys
install: usr/src/sys: No such file or directory
*** Error code 1


My neophyte guess is that the problem lies in this section of etc/Makefile:

distrib-dirs:
        ${INSTALL} ${INSTPRIV} -d -o root -g wheel -m 755 ${DESTDIR}
        ${MTREE} -def mtree/NetBSD.dist -p ${DESTDIR}/ -U ${UNPRIVILEGED:D-W}
        rm -f ${DESTDIR}/sys
        ${INSTALL} ${INSTPRIV} -l s -o root -g wheel -m 755 \
                usr/src/sys ${DESTDIR}/sys

Shouldn't that last bit be ${KERNSRCDIR} instead of having usr/src/sys
hardcoded?

Sadly, however, if I correct the makefile, I get this:

# make release
Build started at: Wed Oct 31 09:59:09 EST 2001
(cd /usr/src/etc && make -m /usr/src/share/mk DESTDIR=/usr/destdir
distrib-dirs)
install  -d -o root -g wheel -m 755 /usr/destdir
mtree -def mtree/NetBSD.dist -p /usr/destdir/ -U 
rm -f /usr/destdir/sys
install  -l s -o root -g wheel -m 755  /usr/src/sys /usr/destdir/sys
install: /usr/destdir/sys: not a regular file
*** Error code 1

The only thing I can think of is that install is doing the wrong thing since
/usr/src and /usr/destdir live on different partitions..

# mount
/dev/sd1a on / type ffs (local, soft dependencies)
/dev/sd1e on /var type ffs (local, soft dependencies)
/dev/sd1f on /usr type ffs (local, soft dependencies)
/dev/sd0f on /usr/src type ffs (local, soft dependencies)

Any ideas?

-- 
George Coulouris -- firstname at lastname dot org