From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 29 03:38:03 2004 Return-Path: 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 60C0716A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 03:38:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail3.blackfoot.net (mail3.blackfoot.net [12.32.34.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3888243D53 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 03:38:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vagabond@blackfoot.net) Received: from mail1.blackfoot.net (mail1.int-net.blackfoot.net [192.168.100.22])i6T3iHRl029058; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:44:17 -0600 Received: from blackfoot.net (w3 [192.168.100.20]) by mail1.blackfoot.net (8.12.10/8.12.2) with SMTP id i6T3nXnA003100; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:49:33 -0600 (MDT) From: "Gary Aitken" Sender: vagabond@blackfoot.net To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:49:29 -0600 X-Mailer: DMailWeb Web to Mail Gateway 2.8e, http://netwinsite.com/top_mail.htm Message-id: <410873c9.3639.0@blackfoot.net> X-User-Info: 12.32.36.74 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: qpopper, make failure, COMMENTFILE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: vagabond@blackfoot.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 03:38:03 -0000 Many thanks. I ended up doing a tar xzf /cdrom/ports/ports.tgz to restore it, then did the necessary rebuilding. >On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:31:05 -0600 >"Gary Aitken" wrote: > >> I just upgraded (I think :-)) from 4.5 to 4.10. >> Initially tried an upgrade, which failed because of an undefined reference >> in the X11 font server library (libfontconfig.so.1, FT_Get_BDF_Property"). >> >> Not to be deterred, I then attempted to do a complete install over the top >> of everything. This failed for the same reason. >> >> I then did an install without X11. This sort of seemed to work, although I >> don't think things finished up properly because I didn't get the usual >> questions about running an http server, etc. >> >> However, it appeared the sys sources were updated and all the files were in >> place, so I built a custom kernel (needed for my network drivers) and >> things started up ok; it says it's 4.10-RELEASE #0, and files in /etc were >> replaced and had to be tweaked (rc.conf, etc). >> >> Unfortunately, the popper I was using (qpopper 4.0.3) was causing things on >> clients attempting to pop to hang, so I decided to update it. I deleted it >> (pkg_delete), downloaded the new .tgz, and attempted to do a make: >> >> Makefile error: There is a COMMENTFILE in this port. >> COMMENTFILEs have been deprecated in >> favor of COMMENT variables. >> Please rectify this. >> *** Error code 1 > >It seems you have an updated set of ports/Mk/bsd.*.mk but the old ports >tree. cvsuping the hole tree, with no refuse files and rebuilding INDEX >would probably help. But you will end rebuilding pretty much everything. > > >-- >IOnut >Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >