>From Simon J. Gerraty: > > Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote: > > For building the system, MAKESYSPATH should be $SRCDIR/share/mk , to be in > > sync.
> > I tried "make -V MAKESYSPATH" from several SRCDIRs, and that's what > > happened. > Yes. If you look at share/mk/src.sys.env.mk > it detects that it was found via a .../ path, and replaces it in > MAKESYSPATH with the actual location - otherwise some makefiles break. > > So maybe I have to set MAKESYSPATH every time I am in ports, don't > > know if this would work from /etc/make.conf (need to experiment). > Probably not, because sys.mk will have already been found before that > ie. the damage may already have been done > > I wonder what would happen if there is no FreeBSD installation at all > > on partition where ports tree is located. > An error like: > make: no system rules (sys.mk). I go into /BETA1/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/synth , run env MAKESYSPATH make all-depends-list and then it seems to work correctly with no syntax error in /BETA1/usr/share/mk/bsd.compiler.mk Maybe I need to file a bug. What happens if src, ports and doc trees are installed on an NFS share, where there would be no FreeBSD installation? Tom _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"