From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Sep 9 14:17:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (discworld.nanolink.com [217.75.135.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5277E37B408 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 14:17:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 6196 invoked by uid 1000); 9 Sep 2001 21:17:21 -0000 Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 00:17:21 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Alvin Sim Cc: Akinori MUSHA , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade problem Message-ID: <20010910001721.E5174@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Alvin Sim , Akinori MUSHA , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <10915159758.20010909022557@yahoo.co.uk> <86bsklsf15.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> <67256669.20010909201541@yahoo.co.uk> <86u1ycmtib.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> <16317334896.20010910012925@yahoo.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <16317334896.20010910012925@yahoo.co.uk>; from bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:29:25AM +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:29:25AM +0800, Alvin Sim wrote: > > > Sunday, September 09, 2001, 08:35:40 PM, Akinori MUSHA wrote: [snip] > > Please remove the bogus file /nonexistent and try over again. > > did that and walla! it now compiles all the way just fine. thanks a lot. > > i was wondering though, if it _depends_ on that file, shouldnt it fine > that file and _then_ run instead of not finding that file and run? Uhm.. if it does not find the file, it assumes some other port is not installed, and it installs that port before proceeding with its own installation. If it finds the file, it proceeds with its own installation, assuming that other port is in place. Later, its own installation tries to use a part of that other port, and fails. In other words, it depends on the file being present; if the file is not present, it tries to do whatever it needs to make the file present (in this case, install some other port). G'luck, Peter -- If you think this sentence is confusing, then change one pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message