Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:49:29 -0600 From: "Gary Aitken" <vagabond@blackfoot.net> To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: qpopper, make failure, COMMENTFILE Message-ID: <410873c9.3639.0@blackfoot.net>
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Many thanks. I ended up doing a tar xzf /cdrom/ports/ports.tgz to restore it, then did the necessary rebuilding. >On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:31:05 -0600 >"Gary Aitken" <vagabond@blackfoot.net> wrote: > >> I just upgraded (I think :-)) from 4.5 to 4.10. >> Initially tried an upgrade, which failed because of an undefined reference >> in the X11 font server library (libfontconfig.so.1, FT_Get_BDF_Property"). >> >> Not to be deterred, I then attempted to do a complete install over the top >> of everything. This failed for the same reason. >> >> I then did an install without X11. This sort of seemed to work, although I >> don't think things finished up properly because I didn't get the usual >> questions about running an http server, etc. >> >> However, it appeared the sys sources were updated and all the files were in >> place, so I built a custom kernel (needed for my network drivers) and >> things started up ok; it says it's 4.10-RELEASE #0, and files in /etc were >> replaced and had to be tweaked (rc.conf, etc). >> >> Unfortunately, the popper I was using (qpopper 4.0.3) was causing things on >> clients attempting to pop to hang, so I decided to update it. I deleted it >> (pkg_delete), downloaded the new .tgz, and attempted to do a make: >> >> Makefile error: There is a COMMENTFILE in this port. >> COMMENTFILEs have been deprecated in >> favor of COMMENT variables. >> Please rectify this. >> *** Error code 1 > >It seems you have an updated set of ports/Mk/bsd.*.mk but the old ports >tree. cvsuping the hole tree, with no refuse files and rebuilding INDEX >would probably help. But you will end rebuilding pretty much everything. > > >-- >IOnut >Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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