Re: HEAD broken at the moment?

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Pressey wrote:

> On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:44:05 -0400
> Scott Ullrich <geekgod@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > YONETANI Tomokazu wrote:
> >
> > > But `make -sj5 buildworld' on a source tree without -P worked for
> > > me. I think the real issue is here:
> > >
> > >
> > > > make buildworld MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/ > & ~/build_log
> > >
> > >
> > > You're trying to put generated files inside your source tree. It may
> > > work for a build in a sub directory, but probably not for
> > > buildworld. And I wonder if specifying MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX or DESTDIR
> > > with anything other than via environment variable works well with
> > > bulidworld, because variable assignment on command line has higher
> > > precedence than via environment variable, and it gets passed down
> > > recursively via MAKEFLAGS.
> >
> > The puzzling thing is that this worked great when I did the 
> > openssh-3.9p1 import.   Is this something to do with the SUS changes? 
> > I  remember on 5.X the create jail script changed and it sounds
> > somewhat  similar where you have to pass the ENV variables down the
> > stack.
>
>
> This worked for me:
>
>   env MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/home/cpressey/root/usr/obj make buildworld
>
> Haven't figured out how to make a fake, as-non-root-user installworld
> happen yet, though.  This mess:
>
>   env MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/home/cpressey/root/usr/obj make \
>       SHAREOWN=cpressey SHAREGRP=2011 \
>       INSTALL="sh `pwd`/tools/install.sh" \
>       DESTDIR=/home/cpressey/root installworld
>
> gets me as far as I have gotten so far, but it chokes on trying to use
> "install-info" from within lib/libcom_err/doc, which (presumably) fails
> while trying to chgrp and chown what it's installing, as a normal user
> (me.)
>
> -Chris

AFAIK, all that needs is a jail, where you are seen to BE 'root'.

Anything less - even a 'wheel' user - will probably NOT work.
It isn't supposed to work! (Nor do I understand why anyone should want 
it to).

Bill