On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 12:43:24PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 06:17:52PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > > Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The attached patches (p4 and p5) try to solve this bootstrapping
> > > > problem with groff(1). I have lightly tested this on my -stable
> > > > box, and would appreciate a feedback on them.
> > >
> > > Do not remove the USRDIRS and INCDIRS and replace it with mtree (ie make
> > > hierarchy). There's no need to duplicate the complete hierarchy inthe
> > > object tree. Also, mtree fiddles with ownership and mods, which is not
> > > appropriate when building.
> > >
> > The -U flag to mtree(8) could be eliminated for this case...
>
> According to the manpage, if you remove -U it doesn't create new
> directories or symlinks. At least that's how I interpret it. The whole
> purpose of running mtree is the creation of directories, so it's a minor
> discomfort when it doesn't do that :-)
>
It appers that running mtree(1) with -U under non-root account works OK,
i.e. it creates all missing directories, and exits with status of zero.
> > > Which additional directories do you need?
> > >
> > Everyting below /usr/share/tmac and /usr/share/groff_font:
> [snip]
> > The new groff(1) release is likely to provide new groff_font
> > subdirectories, so we would need to update USRDIRS every time
> > we upgrade groff(1). Does it look reasonable?
>
> If we intend to upgrade groff(1) once a week, no. If we do it once a
> year, yes.
>
> It's is a long list of directories and I prefer we do not need to sum
> them up in src/Makefile.inc1. On the other hand, I also don't want to
> use mtree.
>
> This is what I'm thinking about:
>
> 1. Determine if there's a real bootstrapping problem
> 2. If there's no bootstrapping issue, goto pub :-)
> 3. Add list of directories to src/Makefile.inc1
> 4. Write script to parse mtree files for use in build
> 5. If not possible, reconsider using mtree
> 6. else, replace lists by running the script.
>
> Thoughts?
>
What if we create the mtree(1)-compatible BSD.world.dist?
The below was generated by ``mtree -cdin -k type,mode''
under 4.2-STABLE.
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# $FreeBSD$
/set type=dir mode=0755
.
usr
bin
..
games
..
include
arpa
..
g++
std
..
..
objc
..
openssl
..
protocols
..
readline
..
rpc
..
rpcsvc
..
security
..
ss
..
..
lib
compat
aout
..
..
..
libdata
ldscripts
..
..
libexec
elf
..
..
sbin
..
share
groff_font
devX100
..
devX100-12
..
devX75
..
devX75-12
..
devascii
..
devcp1047
..
devdvi
..
devhtml
..
devkoi8-r
..
devlatin1
..
devlbp
..
devlj4
..
devps
..
devutf8
..
..
misc
..
tmac
locale
..
mdoc
locale
..
..
mm
..
..
..
src
usr.bin
yacc
..
..
..
..
..
