On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Lee Olsen wrote: > I'm building 4.4 on one linux redhat 7.3 i686 box and installing on a much > slower i486. Make World and make install on the local i686 box complete > successfully, but make install on the 486 does not. Make install is run > as root > on the 486, which maps to nobody on the nfs mounted build tree. Make > install seems to replace a number of symbolic links in the build tree, which > it should not do. Make -i allows the installation to complete, but hides > any real problems that might arise. > A snippet from install.log: > installing in lib/font... > make[3]: Entering directory `/work/src/redhat/SOURCES/X440/xc/lib/font' > making all in lib/font/bitmap... > make[4]: Entering directory > `/work/src/redhat/SOURCES/X440/xc/lib/font/bitmap' > making all in lib/font/bitmap/module... > make[5]: Entering directory > `/work/src/redhat/SOURCES/X440/xc/lib/font/bitmap/module' > rm -f ../../../../exports/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a > rm: cannot unlink `../../../../exports/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a': > Permission denied > make[5]: *** [all] Error 1
> The interesting part is installing in lib/font becomes making all in > it's subdirectories, > instead of just installing. Checking the installation log on the server, > the same links > are rebuilt at the same spot, but root has the ability to do the > replacements. > I can't compare with 4.3, but 4.2.0 does the same thing, so this is > clearly not new > (or critical). Your NFS client and NFS server have a different notion of what time it is. Fix that and you'll be fine. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 developer and VP. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
