Christian Limpach wrote:
> are you building with an objdir?  because even with your change, builds
> are still broken:
> distribution does install-etc-files with pwd = ${.CURDIR}
> INSTALL_FILE won't find MAKEDEV since MAKEDEV is in ${.OBJDIR}

Aah, joy of being first item using OBJDIR in src/etc :)
 
> It works after applying the following patch:
> 
> Index: etc/Makefile
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/netbsd/src/etc/Makefile,v
> retrieving revision 1.260
> diff -u -r1.260 Makefile
> --- etc/Makefile	26 Oct 2003 07:25:34 -0000	1.260
> +++ etc/Makefile	26 Oct 2003 18:39:57 -0000
> @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
>  ETC_PKG=-T etc_pkg
>  BASE_PKG=-T base_pkg
>  ETC_INSTALL_FILE=cd ${.CURDIR} && ${INSTALL_FILE} ${ETC_PKG}
> -ETC_INSTALL_OBJ_FILE=             ${INSTALL_FILE} ${ETC_PKG}
> +ETC_INSTALL_OBJ_FILE=cd ${.OBJDIR} && ${INSTALL_FILE} ${ETC_PKG}
>  ETC_INSTALL_LINK=cd ${.CURDIR} && ${INSTALL_LINK} ${ETC_PKG}
>  ETC_INSTALL_SYMLINK=cd ${.CURDIR} && ${INSTALL_SYMLINK} ${ETC_PKG}

This seems fine AFAICS, tho I didn't actually test this. If it
works for you, feel free to commit this fix.

Jaromir 
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