From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 10 07:46:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD8CF16A4CF for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 07:46:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.dkm.cz (smtp.dkm.cz [62.24.64.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CCFA043D62 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 07:46:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@chello.cz) Received: (qmail 29121 invoked by uid 0); 10 May 2004 14:46:02 -0000 Received: from r3al16.mistral.cz (HELO isis.wad.cz) (213.220.229.16) by smtp.dkm.cz with SMTP; 10 May 2004 14:46:02 -0000 Received: by isis.wad.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 109732FDA01; Mon, 10 May 2004 16:46:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 16:46:02 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Garance A Drosihn Message-ID: <20040510144601.GA34606@isis.wad.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Garance A Drosihn , Kent Stewart , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org References: <20040508134709.GA35555@xor.obsecurity.org> <200405082024.26051.kstewart@owt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org cc: Kent Stewart Subject: Re: Make index || portsdb -uU fails after cvsup X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 14:46:05 -0000 # drosih@rpi.edu / 2004-05-09 19:33:23 -0400: > If I: > cd /usr/ports/arabic > make describe > > then it works perfectly fine. However, that is not what the above > error message complains about. The error says: > > don't know how to make _arabic.describe. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > and "_arabic.describe" *is* the target which is bsd.ports.subdir.mk > is trying to make. And it is trying to make that in /usr/ports, not > in /usr/ports/arabic, because there is no 'cd' in the section which > does the '@${MAKE} -B ${i:S/^/_/:S/$/.describe/} ...' > > In fact, if I put a debugging printf in that target, it is: > > making _accessibility.describe in /usr/obj/usr/ports > > I don't see how that can possibly work for anyone. Kris has already told you to get rid of /usr/obj/usr/ports -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html