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From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
Subject: Re: ports/28227: metamail won't compile
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The following reply was made to PR ports/28227; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To: "Antonio M. D'souza" <quik@quikbox.ca>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/28227: metamail won't compile
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 14:39:48 +0300

 On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 04:16:16AM -0700, Antonio M. D'souza wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         28227
 > >Category:       ports
 > >Synopsis:       metamail won't compile
 > >Originator:     Antonio M. D'souza
 >
 > Metamail will not compile.
 > It seems to break while trying to delete a nonexistent directory.
 > Here is the console output:
 > 
 > ===>  Building for metamail-2.7
 > (cd metamail ; make  CONFIGDIR=../.  CFLAGS="-O -pipe   -I.  " CC="cc"  LDLIBS="-s -lcompat")
 [snip]
 > rm bin/metamail
 > rm: bin/metamail: No such file or directory*** Error code 1 (ignored)
 > (cd bin; ln -s ../metamail/metamail metamail)
 > rm bin/mmencode
 > rm: bin/mmencode: No such file or directory
 > *** Error code 1 (ignored)
 > (cd bin; ln -s ../metamail/mmencode mmencode)
 [snip lots of similar ignored errors]
 
 If this is all the 'error' output you're getting, then no, these
 are not build errors.  Metamail is simply trying to ascertain that
 there is no bin/metamail file or link, before it creates the new
 link to metamail/metamail.  As make(1) says, the error code from
 the failed 'rm' is ignored - this is due to the Makefile specifying
 that this particular command is allowed to fail, because the authors
 are aware that there might be no bin/metamail, and are trying
 to remove it just in case there is.
 
 G'luck,
 Peter
 
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