Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 18:03:44 -0700 From: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> To: asami@freebsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/ddd Makefile Message-ID: <199909120103.SAA03341@windsor.research.att.com>
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> Syntax errors in Makefiles are extremely hard to track down since I > usually find this when the whole package build blows up when INDEX > generation fails. As part of the port survey, I go through the whole ports tree daily, and errors are reported like: From: root@FreeBSD.org (Cron Daemon) Subject: Cron <fenner@freefall> /home/fenner/bin/makefetchlist Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 06:44:51 -0700 (PDT) To: fenner@FreeBSD.org ===> graphics/gracula "Makefile", line 25: 1 open conditional make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue (the make output is postprocessed so the email usually only shows actual failures). I could cc: asami on these if you want =) Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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