Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 11:59:47 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: ./mail/mew without ./japanese/mew Message-ID: <199708140959.LAA00900@axl.iafrica.com>
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I searched the freebsd-ports archive prior to posting, apologies if it's a known problem. The problem is this: if you use cvsup to synchronize the ports-mail collection BUT NOT the ports-japanese collection, tryign to make clean for the entire ports collection will break as follows - "Makefile", line 29: Could not find /path_to_ports/ports/mail/mew/../../japanese/mew/Makefile make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue It seems to me that mew originated within the japanese collection and that ports/mail/mew is just a wrapper for non-Japanese people to install conveniently. This is not a serious problem until you want to make clean for the entire ports collection by doing make clean from your ports/ directory. I know how to work around this problem every time I want to clean all of ports, but what can we do about fixing this permanently so that the workaround isn't blatted every time the local machine synchronizes its ports collection with, for example, cvsup? The obvious solution is to cvsup both ports-mail and ports-japanese but that's not much of a solution. Any other suggestions? Regards, Sheldon. -- Sheldon Hearn http://axl.iafrica.com/ Training Officer +27-21-658-8515 UUNET Internet Africa http://iafrica.com/iafrica/ National Dial Support Centre +27-21-658-8500
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