From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 27 09:25:03 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1FC816A46E for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:25:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tobez@tobez.org) Received: from heechee.tobez.org (heechee.tobez.org [194.255.56.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 587B313C4F2 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:25:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tobez@tobez.org) Received: by heechee.tobez.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1171512542E; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:25:02 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:25:02 +0100 From: Anton Berezin To: "pobox@verysmall.org" Message-ID: <20071127092502.GD83618@heechee.tobez.org> Mail-Followup-To: Anton Berezin , "pobox@verysmall.org" , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <474B2313.2090409@verysmall.org> <1196109636.19259.7.camel@outcold.yadt.co.uk> <474BDAC7.50803@verysmall.org> <20071127090239.GC83618@heechee.tobez.org> <474BE0CF.8030105@verysmall.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <474BE0CF.8030105@verysmall.org> X-Powered-By: FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lang/perl5.8 fails 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: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:25:03 -0000 On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:18:07AM +0100, pobox@verysmall.org wrote: > Anton Berezin wrote: >> Without knowing at what stage of the portupgrade process you got this >> problem - just guessing - it might have confused bsd.port.mk when it >> invoked >> stuff in bsd.apache.mk (because of USE_APACHE statement) while the old >> perl >> was deinstalled. > > It happened when portupgrade tried to install the new version (after > backing up the old version). Then this error came and portupgrade > reinstalled the old version. Right, so as I said - apxs could not be invoked because there was no perl isntalled at that particular instant. > Thinking in retrospective - /etc/make.conf was perhaps not the best place > to put USE_APACHE=2.2 when I needed it only for php. Well yeah, we are not Gentoo. But we should probably not fail in such not-so obvious manner here, anyway. \Anton. -- We're going for 'working' here. 'clean' is for people with skills... -- Flemming Jacobsen