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From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>
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Subject: Re: Error in INDEX file
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On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 19:58:43 +0000
"b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> wrote:

> "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads at 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)||||||||||
> 
> ports/Tools/scripts/domakedescribe and some of the other scripts in
> the same directory can help solve such problems.
> 
> b.

Thanks, noted.

I tracked it down to an empty port Makefile, probably the result of a
cvs update error which I hadn't noticed (hadn't checked my cron logs
yet).

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier
conrads@cox.net