Subject: Re: make release prob on i386
To: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 05/30/2002 14:29:46
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 09:42:17AM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> Found it: the following was further up the error log:
> 
> --- /usr/src/tools/obj.i386/tools.NetBSD-1.6A-i386/share/groff/tmac/tmac.doc ---
> nbinstall: /usr/src/tools/obj.i386/tools.NetBSD-1.6A-i386/share/groff/tmac: mkst
> emp: No such file or directory
> 
> That's why it got the first ones, and not the rest. I was doing a
> make -j4 release
> and tools.NetBSD-1.6A-i386/share just contains misc. So next question is why
> the comment in tools/groff/Makefile
> 
> # Since ${TMACDIR} is created by the `realinstall' target, the `afterinstall'
> # sources below that depend on it must wait until `realinstall' is done.
> 
> doesn't seem to happen.. (At least it makes more sense now!)

Following "realinstall" through, I can't see any directories being created.
For that matter, the only directories I see created at all are in "obj" not
"install". (The reason the build worked, but not the release was that the
build was for 1.5ZC, but the release for 1.6A => tooldir changed..)

Cheers,

Patrick