[coreboot] #164: Building Coreboot v4 r5555/5554 fails mysteriously on Debian lenny and etch (x86)

[coreboot]

#164: Building Coreboot  v4 r5555/5554 fails mysteriously on Debian lenny and
etch (x86)
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    Reporter:  juhe@…       |         Owner:  stepan@…             
        Type:  defect       |        Status:  new                  
    Priority:  major        |     Milestone:                       
   Component:  coreboot     |      Keywords:  makefile, debian     
Dependencies:               |   Patchstatus:  there is no patch    
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Comment(by juhe@…):

 Ok, now I got it.

 The system is set up so that /home is not a directory but a symlink to
 /opt/home , which is the real location of home directories. I was doing
 the build under my home directory and the shell (pwd command) believed it
 was operating under /home rather than /opt/home.

 The Coreboot Makefile seems to do some computation on pathnames and in
 this case it was confused by the symlink along the path. So the end result
 was in some cases adding an extra prefix "/opt" to path names, e.g.
 "/optbuild/foo/bar" instead of "build/foo/bar".

 As the Makefile seems quite complicated for me, I "fixed" this by doing a
 chdir from /home/juhe to /opt/home/juhe, i.e. the same place via a
 different name, and everything works fine.

 Thanks for providing the missing clue to solving this!

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Ticket URL: <https://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/ticket/164#comment:2>
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