I recently helped a user with a problem they were having with DESTDIR builds.
The output they saw was :

  Build started at: Sun Feb 27 21:06:19 CET 2000
  (cd /usr/src/etc && make distrib-dirs)
  install -d -o root -g wheel -m 755 /usr/release
  mtree -def mtree/NetBSD.dist -p /usr/release/ -u
  mtree: unknown user games
  mtree: failed at line 1877 of the specification
  *** Error code 1 (ignored)
  cd /usr/release; rm -f sys; ln -s usr/src/sys sys
  (cd /usr/src/share/mk && make install)
  install   -c -o root  -g wheel -m 444 bsd.README
  /usr/release/usr/share/mk/bsd.README
  install: /usr/release/usr/share/mk/bsd.README: No such file or directory
  *** Error code 1

My question is - why doesn't the make fail when mtree fails?  It's trivial to
change, but why is it the way it is?

J

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