Building the 'images' target in the j2se workspace on Solaris fails - the following fragment demonstrates the failure:

cd $WS/make
gnumake clobber; gnumake all; gnumake images

:
:
rm -f -r /export/Users/alanb/ws/service_sdk_baseline/build/solaris-sparc/j2re-image
/usr/bin/mkdir -p /export/Users/alanb/ws/service_sdk_baseline/build/solaris-sparc/j2re-image
cd ./../build/solaris-sparc; /usr/bin/find bin -depth | /usr/bin/cpio -pdum /export/Users/alanb/ws/service_sdk_baseline/build/solaris-sparc/j2re-image
cpio: cannot open tmpfile ./../build/solaris-sparc/tmp/cpiowFayjQ, errno 2, No such file or directory
1 errors
gnumake: *** [image-jre] Error 1


Discussed with Kelly:


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: images build on solaris 8?
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:47:17 -0800

It's the TMPDIR issue, please file a bug.

The basic problem is this:
   cd ./../build/solaris-sparc; /usr/bin/find bin -depth | /usr/bin/cpio ...

But TMPDIR was set relative to the old directory. I suspect something
has changed to cause cpio to use TMPDIR if it is set.

Try doing the gnumake TOPDIR=`workspace name`
trick, I bet it goes away. The control builds set TOPDIR, which triggers
TMPDIR to be a fullpath.

Yet another nail in 'the use of TMPDIR in makefiles' coffin. :^)

-kto


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