From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 5 17:31:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6871416A401 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 17:31:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt@genesi-usa.com) Received: from mail.genesi-usa.com (mithrandir.softwarenexus.net [66.98.186.96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AEAC13C474 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 17:31:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt@genesi-usa.com) Received: from 82-46-178-156.cable.ubr06.king.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.46.178.156] helo=[192.168.2.228]) by mail.genesi-usa.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HOGKm-000M1i-FT for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:46:48 +0000 Message-ID: <45EC4C59.9020706@genesi-usa.com> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:59:05 +0000 From: Matt Sealey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0b2 (Windows/20070116) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: exim doesn't build on 4.9 (minor error) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:31:58 -0000 Building exim 4.66 on my FreeBSD 4.9 box didn't work; => Attempting to fetch from http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/exim/exim/exim4/. fetch: http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/exim/exim/exim4/FAQ.txt.bz2: size of remote file is not known Receiving FAQ.txt.bz2: 25729 bytes 25729 bytes transferred in 0.7 seconds (38.10 kBps) ===> Extracting for exim-4.66 => MD5 Checksum OK for exim/exim-4.66.tar.bz2. ===> exim-4.66 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8 - found ===> exim-4.66 depends on file: /usr/local/sbin/pkg_info - found bzcat: /usr/ports/distfiles/exim/FAQ.txt.bz2 is not a bzip2 file. *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/mail/exim. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade.79576.0 env UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade UPGRADE_PORexim-4.63 UPGRADE_PORT_VER=4.63 make ** Fix the problem and try again. ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed) ! mail/exim (exim-4.63) (unknown build error) ---> Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed Simply recompressing FAQ.txt.bz2 (it was a plain text file as downloaded, just with a bz2 extension) fixed it, and it all compiled just fine after that. -- Matt Sealey Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations