Re: Problem cross building NetBSD under Mac OS X Snow Leopard

[Julio Merino <jmmv%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:05:45AM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> 
>       Hello,
> 
> I can no longer cross build NetBSD (in this case NetBSD/amd64 5.99.22)
> under Mac OS X Snow Leopard. The build fails at the end with this
> error message:
> 
> ===> build.sh command: ./build.sh -R /scratch/tron/release -O 
> /Volumes/Sources/obj -u -U -j 16 -x -m amd64 release iso-image
> [...]
> --- /Volumes/Sources/obj/destdir.amd64/METALOG.sanitised ---
> /Volumes/Sources/obj/tooldir.Darwin-10.2.0-i386/bin/nbmtree -CSM -k all -N 
> /share/src/NetBSD-current/src/etc </Volumes/Sources/obj/destdir.amd64/METALOG 
>  >/Volumes/Sources/obj/destdir.amd64/METALOG.new
> nbmtree: unknown group `everyone'
> nbmtree: failed at line 1323 of the specification
> *** [/Volumes/Sources/obj/destdir.amd64/METALOG.sanitised] Error code 1
> 1 error
> [..]
> *** BUILD ABORTED ***
> 
> Line 1323 looks like this:
> 
>       ./var/db/postfix type=dir uid=12 gname=everyone mode=0755
> 
> Under Mac OS X the group "everyone" has group id 12 just as the group
> "postfix" under NetBSD which would be the correct group in this case.

I'm not sure if this has been fixed already, but see PR 42181.

-- 
Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv%NetBSD.org@localhost>