Writing to /bin and /lib ?

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi all,

Indeed I needed to re-run configure - thanks everyone for the quick
responses!  We've got a few folks working on cheffing up an
environment, so this is timely.

Cheers,
Martijn
Cheers,
Martijn


On 14 February 2013 07:53, Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com> wrote:
> This looks like you need to rerun configure. Some variables were moved to
> spec.gmk for global use, among them the directories for the j2sdk and j2re
> images. If you haven't rerun configure, these variables won't be set.
>
> You might wonder why make would let you run with an out of date
> configuration. I did too and fixed that in a later change so make will fail
> and tell you to rerun configure.
>
> /Erik
>
>
> On 2013-02-13 20:01, Martijn Verburg wrote:
>>
>> Hi Kelly,
>>
>> Another example just came through (apologies for not getting you the
>> earlier details, my bad).  It looks like this is the stage when it's
>> building images (I see lots of references to the relative images/lib
>> images/unsigned type directories).  Eventually it starts with:
>>
>> ** NOTE the strange quotation marks, a left tick followed by the
>> straightened right single quote **
>>
>> Updating images/sec-bin.zip
>> Images.gmk:179: warning overridding commands for target
>> `/bin/rmiregistery'
>> Images.gmk:179: ignoring old commands for target `/bin/rmiregistery'
>> ...
>> ...
>> ...
>> ..
>> Images.gmk:616: warning: ignoring old commands for target `/release'
>> /bin/cp: cannot create regular file `/lib/security/java.security':
>> Permission denied
>> make[2]: *** [/lib/security/java.security] Error 1
>> make[1]: *** [images] Error 2
>> make: *** [images-only] Error 2
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martijn
>>
>>
>> On 13 February 2013 18:48, Kelly O'Hair<kelly.ohair at oracle.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Can we get more details?
>>> Sounds like a make variable that holds a directory is not being defined,
>>> we should never try and write to /bin or /lib.
>>>
>>> -kto
>>>
>>> On Feb 13, 2013, at 10:39 AM, Martijn Verburg wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> This might have already been covered (in that case my apologies).  I
>>>> noticed during recent builds of the tl forest that the make clean
>>>> install process expected to write to /bin (an rmi file of some sort)
>>>> and /lib - this surprises me a little - is that definitely the
>>>> intention?
>>>>
>>>> Apologies for the lack of details - context switching a little much
>>>> tonight.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Martijn