Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:41:12 +0100 From: Bernard El-Hagin <bernard.el-hagin@lido-tech.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry Message-ID: <nv6m30lhvg9tbic6mv68ecbk0g2a7lu2l6@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <403B1710.4090207@geminix.org> References: <20040223213301.GA2236@jrpenn.demon.co.uk> <20040224031539.K800@localhost.localdomain> <20040224034201.GA38608@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040224045718.GA661@hoth> <20040224061613.GA40324@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040224074445.00007d99@gdndev25> <20040224065734.GA40898@xor.obsecurity.org> <he0m309fuih9fcn1vntfoj6g4svpfkgjjq@4ax.com> <403B1710.4090207@geminix.org>
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Uwe Doering wrote: >Bernard El-Hagin wrote: >> Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: >>=20 >>>On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:44:45AM +0100, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: >>> >>>>>>Since I have this same problem I ran 'make describe' and here's the >>>>>>result: >>>>>> >>>>>>------------- >>>>>>=3D=3D=3D> devel/sparc-rtems-gdb >>>>>>*** Error code 1 >>>>>> >>>>>>Stop in /usr/ports/devel. >>>>>>*** Error code 1 >>>>>> >>>>>>Stop in /usr/ports. >>>>>>------------- >>>>> >>>>>What version of FreeBSD are you running? >>>> >>>>Sorry, I should have mentioned that. I'm running 5.1-Release. >>> >>>I think there's something in one of the included makefiles that relies >>>on a change to make(1) that happened after 5.1-RELEASE. Note that >>>only the most recent release is supported by the ports collection >>>(http://www.freebsd.org/ports); try updating to 5.2 or 4.9, which >>>should fix the problem. >>=20 >> Wow, that really sucks, since I've had zero luck updating to 5.2 the = two >> times I tried, and going with 4.9 from 5.1R means a reinstall, rather >> than an upgrade (I'm led to believe). > >If you have the OS sources installed you could selectively upgrade the=20 >source files of make(1) via cvsup(1) and just install it. No need to=20 >upgrade the whole OS only because make(1) got an additional command line= =20 >option. We recently did this for our 4.5 based systems. Could you please explain how that's done? I've never selectively upgraded the source and I'm afraid of screwing something up. --=20 Cheers, Bernard
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