Subject: Re: two more bugs perry doesn't want to admit exists
To: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 11/24/2001 08:51:13
setting MAKEOBJDIRPRFIX in build.sh fixed #2 but not #1
stupid me thought -O and MAKEOBJDIR was the same as MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX

In some email I received from Jaromir Dolecek, sie wrote:
> Darren Reed wrote:
> > #1.
> > using UNPRIVED=1 in /etc/mk.conf results in this with a r-o src, despite
> > setting all the directory flags with build.sh
> > 
> > nbinstall: open /data3/netbsd/src/METALOG: Read-only file system
> > 
> > (perry doesn't think this is a problem...and insists that I'm not using
> >  a "root objdir")
> 
> What OBJDIR do you use? I though METALOG would be created in root
> of objdir, which must be writable of course.
>  
> > #2
> > cd /data3/netbsd/src/sys/arch/sparc/conf && /www/obj/tool/bin/nbconfig  -b /data3/netbsd/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/GENERIC -s /data3/netbsd/src/sys GENERIC
> > config: cannot create /data3/netbsd/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/GENERIC: Read-only file system
> > *** Error code 2
> > 
> > (perry doesn't think this never happened before, but prior to having to use
> >  the new toolchain, it worked)
> 
> I don't see how this could ever have worked before, if 
> /data3/netbsd/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile if RO. Did the pre-newtoolchain
> tree passed objdir via -b to config too? This one definitely needs
> fixing.
> 
> Jaromir
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