Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:58:10 -0800 From: Gord Broom <Gordon.Broom@home.com> To: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au>, Brad Tombaugh <btombau@qwest.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems Making Ports Message-ID: <01012322025301.75594@ardbeg> In-Reply-To: <3A6D4AF3.69241B5E@quake.com.au> References: <3A6D2B4C.4F9382A3@qwest.net> <3A6D4AF3.69241B5E@quake.com.au>
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On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Kal Torak wrote: > Brad Tombaugh wrote: > >=20 > > Several people, including me, have posted articles to > > comp.unix.bsd.frebsd.misc regarding problems making ports after updat= ing > > to RELENG_4 (4.2-STABLE). > >=20 > > The first symptom that I saw after "making world" was that when I > > attempted to "make" or "make install" any of several ports I got an > > error: > >=20 > > orion# cd /usr/ports/textproc/docproj > > orion# make > > Error: your port uses an old layout. Please update it to > > match this bsd.port.mk. > >=20 > > checking /urs/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk shows several instances of this or > > similar messages, generally near a declaration for "pre-everything::" > >=20 > If you had read /usr/src/UPDATING then you would of seen that after > an upgrade to 4.2 you are required to cvsup your whole ports tree since > changes were made to the base port structure... > Reading the UPDATING file properly solves almost all upgrading problems= =2E.. >=20 Also, you may have to delete empty directories in each of the individual = ports (which cvsup left behind, as I've seen CVS do), which confuse both bsd.po= rt.mk and users. I thought I had written down which directories they were, but hunt around= in bsd.ports.mk for the specific error it gives you, and it'll point you the= re. I know one of them was 'patches/', I can't remember the second. Gord. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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