Received: from saint-elmos-fire.mit.edu (tlyu@SAINT-ELMOS-FIRE.MIT.EDU [18.18.0.248]) by krbdev.mit.edu (8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA24130; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:51:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tlyu@localhost) by saint-elmos-fire.mit.edu (8.9.3) id RAA06733; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:51:39 -0400 (EDT) To: peterm@telstra.net Cc: rt@krbdev.mit.edu Subject: Re: [krbdev.mit.edu: #1159] util/db2/Makfile fails References: <200208260338.g7Q3cxha017576@ken-kevlar.telstra.net> From: Tom Yu Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 17:51:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200208260338.g7Q3cxha017576@ken-kevlar.telstra.net> (peterm@telstra.net's message of "Mon, 26 Aug 2002 13:38:59 +1000 (EST)") Message-Id: Lines: 17 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-RT-Original-Encoding: us-ascii Content-Length: 654 >>>>> "peterm" == peterm writes: peterm> System: FreeBSD ken-kevlar.telstra.net 4.6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Aug 23 01:03:58 EST 2002 peterm@ken-kevlar:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SR2X00 i386 >> Description: peterm> make fails while processing util/db2/Makefile. The obj directory does exist and can be cd'd to. peterm> Error messages: peterm> making all in util/db2... peterm> for i in obj; do (cd $i; make all) || exit 1; done peterm> cd: can't cd to obj peterm> *** Error code 1 I believe this is a known misfeature of the BSD pmake; it treats directories named "obj" specially. Please try gmake instead. ---Tom