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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!eur.nl!pk
- From: pk@cs.few.eur.nl (Paul Kranenburg)
- Subject: Re: 386bsd: elvis won't compile
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.110750.24748@cs.few.eur.nl>
- Sender: news@cs.few.eur.nl
- Reply-To: pk@cs.few.eur.nl
- Organization: Erasmus University Rotterdam
- References: <1992Sep8.185716.23623@hippo.ru.ac.za> <BuA04M.J6H@ibmpcug.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 11:07:50 GMT
- Lines: 35
-
- In <BuA04M.J6H@ibmpcug.co.uk> adrian@ibmpcug.co.uk (Adrian Hall) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Sep8.185716.23623@hippo.ru.ac.za> ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mike Lawrie) writes:
- >>In /usr/src/usr.bin/elvis, I type "make" and end up with the message
- >>
- >> make: obj: No such file or directory
- >>
- >>There is a link /usr/src/usr.bin/elvis/obj->/usr/obj/contrib/elvis-1.5,
- >>but there is not even a directory /usr/obj/contrib.
- >>
-
- >Ummmm
-
- > mkdir -p /usr/obj/contrib/elvis-1.5
-
- >Seriously though (sorry if I assumedyou didnt know the usage of the
- >mkdir command!), there are a lot of directories under /usr/othersrc
- >which ask for obj dirs and do not have one. The appropriate mkdir -p
- >clears it up, so it is no great problem.
-
- There is a related problem with make if you try to overrule the object
- directory by setting the environment var MAKEOBJDIR. If I set it to "."
- (doing "setenv MAKEOBJDIR ." or just "setenv MAKEOBJDIR"), make will
- erroneously set its variable ${.CURDIR} to "..", causing a number of
- Makefiles to get confused. A look at the code (right at the beginning
- of main()) reveales that any value of MAKEOBJDIR that does not evaluate
- to a subdirectory of the current directory (in which make was started)
- will cause this error to show up.
-
- A quick fix would be to change the line (#358, main.c)
- if (S_ISDIR(sb.st_mode))
- to
- if (S_ISDIR(sb.st_mode) && !strcmp(path, _PATH_OBJDIR))
-
- -pk
-