From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Oct 21 18:54:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5650837B404 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:54:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.8.210.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08AA843E88 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:54:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (alane@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9M1s1dF060612 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:54:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: (from alane@localhost) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9M1s1MO060611 for freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:54:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from alane) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:54:01 -0400 From: AlanE To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/44321: devel/automake14 - packaging failure Message-ID: <20021022015401.GA16039@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> Reply-To: FreeBSD Ports List Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org References: <200210210020.g9L0K25w075895@freefall.freebsd.org> <20021022013341.GA2742@moo.holy.cow> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021022013341.GA2742@moo.holy.cow> X-message-flag: Magic 8-Ball says "Outlook not so good." I'll ask it about Exchange next. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:33:41PM -0400, parv wrote: >in message <200210210020.g9L0K25w075895@freefall.freebsd.org>, >wrote AlanE thusly... >alan, what other details you might have needed from me to solve the >problem? i thought i gave submitted all the relevant data. what >could be "*lots* more"? output of "make -d A package"? The thing that enabled me to see the actual problem behind the symptoms was seeing the deinstall fail because what it thought was a file or link was a real directory. It's different for each case. In this case, the *first* error message was the one from the deinstallation, and that one was omitted. When you compile a C(++) program, the very first error message you get is probably what you want to look at. After that, the following errors may not have as much meaning because the first error confused the compiler's state. The message that foo/. exists is just not clear (and that's the fault of the 'ln' program). It was seeing the deinstallation fail that actually allowed me to see what the true problem was. From there, I could reproduce it and fix it. BTW did you know that mail to parv@freebsd.org bounces? Or did earlier, anyway. (I did a direct reply to you and it came back.) -- Alan Eldridge Unix/C(++) IT Pro, 20 yrs, seeking new employment. (http://wwweasel.geeksrus.net/~alane/resume.txt) KDE, KDE-FreeBSD Teams (http://www.kde.org, http://freebsd.kde.org/) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message