On Dec 4, 10:57pm, lukem@netbsd.org (Luke Mewburn) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: tweaks for fparseln(3) move from libutil to libc

| This is not entirely correct.
| 
| Before I committed the changes to tools/compat to check for fparseln,
| I tested the changes on a NetBSD 1.6_STABLE system, a -current system
| without the migration, and a -current system with the migration,
| and tool build worked fine each time.
| 
| Note; in each case I was building "clean" (I.e, I disabled UPDATE=1),
| UNPRIVED, read-only source, to a DESTDIR != /.
| 
|   | Revert all your changes.
|   | 
|   | make includes && cd lib/libc && make && make install
|   | 
|   | Then proceed with your build. Somebody should put this
|   | in UPDATING.
| 
| Is that necessary?
| (I suppose it might be for DESTDIR=/ builds...)

Yes, it is (for DESTDIR=/ builds). And I really don't like the fact that
people keep saying "don't do this" about DESTDIR=/ builds. Either officialy
don't support it, or make sure that it works by testing it.

christos