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From: pk@cs.few.eur.nl (Paul Kranenburg)
Subject: Re: 386bsd: elvis won't compile
Message-ID: <1992Sep11.110750.24748@cs.few.eur.nl>
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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
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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