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Date:      Mon, 10 Sep 2001 01:29:25 +0800
From:      Alvin Sim <bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk>
To:        Akinori MUSHA <knu@iDaemons.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re[4]: portupgrade problem
Message-ID:  <16317334896.20010910012925@yahoo.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <86u1ycmtib.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org>
References:  <10915159758.20010909022557@yahoo.co.uk> <86bsklsf15.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> <67256669.20010909201541@yahoo.co.uk> <86u1ycmtib.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org>

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Sunday, September 09, 2001, 08:35:40 PM, Akinori MUSHA wrote:
> At Sun, 9 Sep 2001 20:15:41 +0800,
> Alvin Sim wrote:
>> >> No MD5 checksum file.
>> ===>   ruby_static-1.6.4.2001.09.03 depends on file: /nonexistent - found
>> ===>   ruby_static-1.6.4.2001.09.03 depends on file: /nonexistent - found
>> ===>   ruby_static-1.6.4.2001.09.03 depends on file: /nonexistent - found
>> ===>   ruby_static-1.6.4.2001.09.03 depends on file: /nonexistent - found
>> ===>   ruby_static-1.6.4.2001.09.03 depends on file: /nonexistent - found

> D'oh!  Why on earth do you have such a file /nonexistent!?  The file
> is supposed to be nonexistent, and the ports system depends on its
> nonexistence.  It's not only ruby-static that would fail to build.

hah hah... it does seem funny but that was something i did when i
install samba weeks ago. i couldnt remember what were the steps i made
:)

> Please remove the bogus file /nonexistent and try over again.

did that and walla! it now compiles all the way just fine. thanks a lot.

i was wondering though, if it _depends_ on that file, shouldnt it fine
that file and _then_ run instead of not finding that file and run?

>> ===>   ruby_static-1.6.4.2001.09.03 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/ruby - found
>> ===>   ruby_static-1.6.4.2001.09.03 depends on executable: autoconf - found

> Regards,

again, thanks for looking into this and making it work :)


~as


-- 
Alvin bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk


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