Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:30:16 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Bob Tito <lists@magicfingers.org> Subject: Re: INDEX failed for sparc64 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0412291125090.686-100000@pancho> In-Reply-To: <41D27AD0.5090005@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Ade Lovett wrote: > Bob Tito wrote: > > [the problem] > > >> lists# /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu > >> Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please > >> wait.."Makefile", line 110: Unsupported architecture sparc64. > is broken on !i386 as it stands. A quick local fix would be to replace > the two instances of .error with IGNORE= <whatever text it was> And the above, gentle readers, is why the use of .error in a ports Makefile is Always The Wrong Thing. The "quick local fix" is actually the known, documented, canonical, correct way for a ports Makefile to work. It needs to be committed. This is not to pick on anyone in particular. At some point (if no one else gets to it first) I intend to remove all instances of .error so that there are no further bad examples to clone from. (Note for people new to this issue: not only 'make index' is affected by use of of .error. Any attempt to generate any metainformation about a port via use of 'make -V' will also fail.) mcl
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