From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 4 19:50:26 2012 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 836E4106566C for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 19:50:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from eastrmfepo203.cox.net (eastrmfepo203.cox.net [68.230.241.218]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 158278FC0A for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 19:50:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmimpo306.cox.net ([68.230.241.238]) by eastrmfepo203.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.01.04.00 201-2260-137-20101110) with ESMTP id <20120304195014.DGKK18532.eastrmfepo203.cox.net@eastrmimpo306.cox.net> for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 14:50:14 -0500 Received: from serene.no-ip.org ([98.164.84.176]) by eastrmimpo306.cox.net with bizsmtp id hXqE1i0093oG0Ji02XqERn; Sun, 04 Mar 2012 14:50:14 -0500 X-CT-Class: Clean X-CT-Score: 0.00 X-CT-RefID: str=0001.0A02020A.4F53C776.005F,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-CT-Spam: 0 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=B+FE7AhiD0cQuRVwIvPJ1eEuyBBHnGwhXSd3peghvqs= c=1 sm=1 a=G8Uczd0VNMoA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=qwmwShWo9LG1Fa0ONy89vg==:17 a=kviXuzpPAAAA:8 a=8qYJF9V9CmBs28X4-J4A:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=4vB-4DCPJfMA:10 a=qwmwShWo9LG1Fa0ONy89vg==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none Received: from cox.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by serene.no-ip.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q24JoDFA005003 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 13:50:13 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 13:50:08 -0600 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120304135008.0e6f49e6@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20120304133344.27dce7a3@cox.net> References: <20120304133344.27dce7a3@cox.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Error in INDEX file 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: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:50:26 -0000 On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 13:33:44 -0600 "Conrad J. Sabatier" wrote: > While investigating the cause of sudden crashes this morning in > mkreadmes, I discovered that my INDEX-10 file has the following as its > first line: > > make: don't know how to make describe(continuing)|||||||||| > > Is anyone else seeing the same? Is there a general problem with index > file creation at this time? Does anyone have a clue as to where the > root of the problem may be? > Nevermind. Apparently, some error occurred during a CVS update of my ports tree, and ports-mgmt/porttools wound up with an empty Makefile, generating the above error message, which wound up in my INDEX-10 file because of the way I was invoking "make index" in my nightly ports maintenance cron job. Still, it did point up a need for more robustness in mkreadmes, so I suppose it was a fortuitous mistake. :-) -- Conrad J. Sabatier conrads@cox.net