From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Mar 1 9:26:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EA2F37B400; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:26:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD9195D04; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:26:52 -0800 (PST) To: knu@freebsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: MANY errors reported by portsdb Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 09:26:52 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20020301172652.AD9195D04@ptavv.es.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org For the past couple of months I have been getting voluminous errors reported when I do a 'portsdb -Uu'. The last time it totaled over 23,000 lines of errors. It appears that they result from errors in the dependencies in various pots, but the errors messages look like they could be largely eliminated. I can supply the full list of errors, but here are the first few and the others seem very similar. Updating the ports index ..."/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 527: Too many nested if's. 30 max.: malformed entry: "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 527: Too many nested if's. 30 max. "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 529: Too many nested if's. 30 max.: malformed entry: "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 529: Too many nested if's. 30 max. "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 529: Missing dependency operator: malformed entry: "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 529: Missing dependency operator "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 539: Too many nested if's. 30 max.: malformed entry: "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 539: Too many nested if's. 30 max. "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 539: Missing dependency operator: malformed entry: "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 539: Missing dependency operator "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 542: Too many nested if's. 30 max.: malformed entry: "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 542: Too many nested if's. 30 max. "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 542: Need an operator: malformed entry: "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 542: Need an operator "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 595: Too many nested if's. 30 max.: malformed entry: "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 595: Too many nested if's. 30 max. "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 603: Too many nested if's. 30 max.: malformed entry: "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 603: Too many nested if's. 30 max. "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 608: Too many nested if's. 30 max.: malformed entry: "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 608: Too many nested if's. 30 max. "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 613: Too many nested if's. 30 max.: malformed entry: "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 613: Too many nested if's. 30 max. These messages are coming out for every '.if' and '.else' statement in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk Any help on this would be gratefully received! R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message