Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 21:52:26 -0800 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: pkg_create vs. my new port Message-ID: <199602020552.VAA04054@austin.polstra.com>
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I need some help to work around a bug in pkg_create that causes "make
package" to fail on a new port that I'm creating.
The port is for DEC Systems Research Center's Modula-3 system.
It's a very large system with a deep directory structure, and so
my PLIST file is large -- 2168 lines and 86125 characters. When
I run "make package", pkg_create dies with the message "Failed to
execute tar command". I did a ktrace and found out the reason:
argument list too long. Well, that's no wonder, because pkg_create
puts every filename onto the tar command line, and the system limit
is 65536 characters.
I could fix pkg_create to use tar's "-T" option (get the list of files
from a file instead of from the command line), but I'm looking for an
easier work-around. One idea I had was to use "@cwd" lines in the
PLIST, to make it smaller. For example, there are many files whose
names all begin with "lib/m3/pkg/". So I could bracket these lines
with:
@cwd lib/m3/pkg
...
@cwd ../../..
and eliminate that prefix from every filename, saving quite a few
characters.
But I don't think it'll work. At the end of my PLIST, there's a
ldconfig execution:
@exec /sbin/ldconfig -m %D/lib/m3/FreeBSD2
>From looking at the code, I'm pretty sure that %D will be replaced with
the literal text from the last @cwd, that is, "../../..". That doesn't
sound so great.
Do any of you have any ideas about how to solve this problem?
--
John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA
"Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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