Am 19.05.2026 um 08:09 schrieb Stuart Henderson:
> On 2026-05-19, Christian Schulte <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Am 18.05.2026 um 14:35 schrieb Stuart Henderson:
>>> On 2026-05-18, Christian Schulte <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Am 18.05.2026 um 05:06 schrieb Jonathan Gray:
>>>>> On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 12:06:23AM +0200, Christian Schulte wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> are the build instructions in release(8) for building xenocara still
>>>>>> recent? After a fresh install and a fresh checkout, I am getting build
>>>>>> issues, I don't know what to do about. For example:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ===> driver/xf86-video-amdgpu
>>>>>> make: don't know how to make build
>>>>>> Stop in driver/xf86-video-amdgpu
>>>>>> *** Error 2 in driver (<bsd.subdir.mk>:48 'build')
>>>>>> *** Error 2 in . (<bsd.subdir.mk>:48 'realbuild')
>>>>>> *** Error 2 in . (Makefile:37 'do-build')
>>>>>> *** Error 2 in /usr/xenocara (Makefile:26 'build')
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's the only driver/xf86-video-* not directory not containing
>>>>>> autoconf/automake scripts or a Makefile.bsd-wrapper and indeed the
>>>>>> Makfile therein does not contain a build target.
>>>>>
>>>>> The build target comes from the included bsd.xorg.mk
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems you have a problem in your checkout or environment.
>>>>> xenocara builds fine here.
>>>>
>>>> Not sure. It's really a fresh install and a fresh checkout.
>>>
>>> Is your obj directory clean (not just "make clean" clean; actually
>>> clean - "rm -r obj/*; make obj")?
>>
>> Seems I never noticed the command I am using to remove the objects does
>> not remove anything. My guess is the * is expanded before calling doas
>> instead of getting passed to doas. D'oh! Never noticed this. Only the rm
>> running as root after su removes them. You just need to know. Thanks.
>
> Yes, that's how the shell works. If you don't have permission to list
> the directory (e.g. if you can't already tab-complete files in
> it), then you need to have the wildcard expansion happen later.
>
>> 0x02$ doas rm -rf /usr/xobj/*
>
> btw, running as root to remove files owned by build is a bit
> overpowered, you're one typo away from a bad day.
>
> doas -u build sh -c 'rm -r obj/*'
>
Thanks. Of course. To make it even more D'oh! I should have noticed this
myself because somewhen 1998 I setup a Sun server and used 'rm-rf/*' as
the root password and thought this to be a funny joke until a colleague...
