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Date:      Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:58:45 -0800
From:      Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net>
To:        Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Can't install from ports
Message-ID:  <496F5D35.1030604@comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <35217558@ipt.ru>
References:  <496EBE7A.9030706@comcast.net> <35217558@ipt.ru>

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> Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> writes:
>
>   
>> Boy, this hasn't been a good night.  I am unable to install from
>> ports.  When I attempt to do
>> a compile I get this error message:
>>
>> 1 open conditional:
>>         at line 131 (evaluated to true)
>> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
>>     
>
> This may help to narrow down your problem:
> . update your ports tree;
> . temporarily remove /etc/make.conf.
>
>
> WBR
>   

And it turns out that the make.conf file was the culprit.  I had put an 
entry in there
to prevent CUPS from installing lp in the wrong place, and that caused the
problem.  All is well.

Rem



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