Re: pkg/43550

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/43550; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/43550
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:29:29 +0200

 On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:50:04AM +0000, John D. Baker wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/43550; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: "John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>,
 >         Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
 > Subject: Re: pkg/43550
 > Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:46:02 -0500 (CDT)
 > 
 >  On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, John D. Baker wrote:
 >  > Yes.  In my /usr/pkg/etc/mk.conf file I have:
 >  >
 >  >  WRKOBJDIR=               /d0/tmp/pkgsrc/
 >  >
 >  > where "/d0" is a symbolic link to "Volumes/d0"
 >  |                                   ^^
 >  
 >  Because my symlink was relative, it failed.  I re-linked "/d0" to an
 >  absolute path of "/Volumes/d0" and it built and installed just fine.
 >  
 >  Now I wonder how many of my other problems with pkgsrc on MacOS X might
 >  have been caused by the same thing...
 
 Don't use symlinks for components of WRKOBJDIR at all. Really, point it
 to the resolved location, e.g. the output of
        cd /d0/tmp/pkgsrc && pwd -P
 
 Anything else is just waiting for breakage.
 
 Joerg