Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:00:08 GMT From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/120013: make describe fails Message-ID: <200801270000.m0R008m3036373@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/120013; it has been noted by GNATS. From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) To: User & <paul@amy.home.net> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/120013: make describe fails Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:30:36 -0600 You may not be familiar with the fact that we have a periodic process that does a 'make describe' over the whole ports tree as a sanity check. Failure results are posted to freebsd-port@FreeBSD.org with the Subject line "INDEX build failed for <osversion>.x". In this case I'm not seeing a message that got posted corresponding to this particular failure. Sometimes what this means is that you have synched to the repository during a period where a port was being added or removed, and thus you have a port listed in devel/Makefile that has already been removed. This can cause this problem. The proper cure in that situation is to resynch. However, other times there can be odd problems in a port (something in the Makefile that doesn't work right with some global flag settings, for instance). Those require more detective work to diagnose. fwiw, I can't duplicate the error here with sources from a day or two ago. I'll try to re-cvsup and run it again. (OTOH I tend to trust the period script more than my own testing, since my local ports tree is usually modified in some way.) mcl
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