Robert Elz writes: > I wonder if perhaps part of the reason (or perhaps all of it) that > Paul and I see problems, where others aren't, is that we are both > building from a read only mounted source tree.
oh yeah - this is only going to break r/o src tree builds, which is also something i use as much as possible. i recommend r/o src trees for all netbsd src builds. my random build failed issues became far less common when i did that decades ago. > Eg: from Paul's error log: > > Making info in po > GEN > /build/netbsd-current/src_ro/tools/binutils/../../external/gpl3/binutils/dist/bfd/doc/bfdver.texi > x86_64--netbsd-install: > /build/netbsd-current/src_ro/tools/binutils/../../external/gpl3/binutils/dist/bfd/doc: > chown/chmod: Read-only file system > sh: cannot create > /build/netbsd-current/src_ro/tools/binutils/../../external/gpl3/binutils/dist/bfd/doc/bfdver.texi: > read-only file system > > which indicates something is trying to make files in the source > tree, instead of the obj tree. this specific instance should now be fixed. > The errors I'm seeing are different, but could have the same underlying > cause. what are you seeing? can you update and post the latest failures? .mrg.
