Re: Error trying to compile databases/mysql57-client

[Christopher Pinon <cjpinon%secondfloor.xyz@localhost>]

Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost> wrote:

> Am 18.08.2019 um 23:11 schrieb Christopher Pinon:
> > I guess that the lesson is that WRKOBJDIR should *not* be set to a
> > symbolic link. (Is this the lesson?)
> 
> Yes, that's exactly it. To prevent this bad experience,
> bootstrap/bootstrap prevents several directories from containing a
> symlink in their path (see checkarg_sane_absolute_path).
> 
> Unfortunately, WRKOBJDIR is not in that list since it is usually
> configured later and manually, therefore bootstrap cannot do anything
> about it.
> 
> To fix this for all times and for everyone, I just added the same check
> to mk/bsd.pkg.mk. This would have saved you the time to search for this bug.

Thanks for doing this. :-)

C.