From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jan 24 12: 6: 1 2003 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 5DF0237B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 12:06:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from net2.dinoex.sub.org (net2.dinoex.de [212.184.201.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B10643F5F for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 12:05:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org) Received: from net2.dinoex.sub.org (dinoex@net2.dinoex.de [212.184.201.182]) by net2.dinoex.sub.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0OK580k014550 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 21:05:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org) X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: X-Authentication-Warning: net2.dinoex.sub.org: Host dinoex@net2.dinoex.de [212.184.201.182] claimed to be net2.dinoex.sub.org Received: from gate.dinoex.sub.org (dinoex@localhost) by net2.dinoex.sub.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with BSMTP id h0OK571t014537 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 21:05:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org) To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: From: dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org (Dirk Meyer) Organization: privat Subject: Re: Patch for _TMLINKS errors in 'make index' Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 21:01:31 +0100 X-Mailer: Dinoex 1.79 References: <20030124090217.GA94647@rot13.obsecurity.org> X-Gateway: ZCONNECT gate.dinoex.sub.org [UNIX/Connect 0.94] X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 16 EC 0A D3 3A 4F 28 8A 8A 47 93 F1 CF 2F 12 X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2001 by Dirk Meyer -- All rights reserved. X-PGP-Key-Avail: mailto:pgp-public-keys@keys.de.pgp.net Subject:GET 0x331CDA5D X-ZC-VIA: 20030124000000W+1@dinoex.sub.org X-Accept-Language: de,en X-Noad: Please don't send me ad's by mail. I'm bored by this type of mail. X-Note: sending SPAM is a violation of both german and US law and will at least trigger a complaint at your provider's postmaster. X-No-Archive: yes 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 Kris Kennaway schrieb:, > The following patch seems to fix the error messages spewed out by > 'make index' when running the 'describe' target on the cdk and > openssl-beta ports. The errors occur because these ports have a huge > number of MLINKS, and they overflow the command line in a bsd.port.mk > variable assignment. I'm not entirely happy with the way I ended up > fixing the problem (thanks to fenner for the suggestion), but I > couldn't find a better one. Why do we need _MLINKS in the enviroment of the commandline anyway? Please enlighten me. NOPRECIOUSMAKEVARS=yes has fixed all the problems. in tcl84 as well as in openssl-beta. Suggestion: 1) it could be automaticly set while calling make describe. 2) don't add _MLINKS to __softMAKEFLAGS see also: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/33278 - Dirk Meyer, Im Grund 4, 34317 Habichtswald, Germany - [dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org],[dirk.meyer@guug.de],[dinoex@FreeBSD.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message