Re: port-evbarm/51399: evbarm7hf release fails to build on Linux 3.16 host.

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-evbarm/51399; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-evbarm/51399: evbarm7hf release fails to build on Linux
 3.16 host.
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2016 18:34:07 +0000

 On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 10:10:01PM +0000, Nickolas Peter wrote:
  >  Thanks for the quick response, David. After talking with some people in the
  >  irc channel, they strongly suggested that the error was due to running
  >  build.sh in privileged mode. They also suggested I start over and rebuild
  >  with the '-U' flag, so I followed their advice. The build just finished
  >  successfully. Unfortunately I removed the original directory that I build
  >  as root, so I don't have the sanitized METALOG file. I wish I had kept it,
  >  in case others have come across this issue. I guess the workaround is just
  >  to run build.sh unprivileged.
 
 Hmm... the METALOG files are what's produced by an unprivileged build
 in place of chown/chmod in $DESTDIR, so you wouldn't have had them
 anyway.
 
 I'm not sure privileged cross-builds are expected to work at all...
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost