From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 6 10:25:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 922B816A4DE for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 10:25:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vdemart1@tin.it) Received: from vsmtp2.tin.it (vsmtp2.tin.it [212.216.176.222]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C7B943D45 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 10:25:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vdemart1@tin.it) Received: from [83.225.185.186] (83.225.185.186) by vsmtp2.tin.it (7.2.072.1) (authenticated as vdemart1@tin.it) id 44F6D8F8004309FE for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 12:25:28 +0200 From: vittorio To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 12:25:09 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200609061225.09727.vdemart1@tin.it> Subject: Creating pkg-plist - problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:25:30 -0000 Under 6.1 I'm trying to build a port (R-2.3.1) following the instructions in the porters-handbook and particularly I'm having a go at creating the pkg-plist file as suggested in the point 7.5 of http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/plist-autoplist.html now,there is said: "Next, create a temporary directory tree into which your port can be installed, and install any dependencies. # mkdir /var/tmp/$(make -V PORTNAME) # mtree -U -f $(make -V MTREE_FILE) -d -e -p /var/tmp/$(make -V PORTNAME) # make depends PREFIX=/var/tmp/$(make -V PORTNAME)" but, when I try: % make -V PORTNAME R BUT % mkdir /var/tmp/$(make -V PORTNAME) the answer is "Nome di variabile non lecito" that is "variable name not allowed" What's wrong with it? Ciao Vittorio