Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 13:50:08 -0600 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error in INDEX file Message-ID: <20120304135008.0e6f49e6@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20120304133344.27dce7a3@cox.net> References: <20120304133344.27dce7a3@cox.net>
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On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 13:33:44 -0600 "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> 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
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