From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 26 07:39:33 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A3B3106564A for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 07:39:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 65-241-43-4.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DE4614EBFA; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 07:39:33 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4E06E235.5020004@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:39:33 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Carl References: 4DC0742E.1050104@gmail.com <4E059769.2050805@telus.net> In-Reply-To: <4E059769.2050805@telus.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster issue: "The value of DISTDIR cannot be empty" X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 07:39:33 -0000 On 06/25/2011 01:08, Carl wrote: > Well I'm not the OP, but I just experienced something very similar. This > arose when I was trying to deal with the combining of ports > print/amspsfnt and print/cmpsfont into print/font-amsfonts. As you can > see below, I had no problem upgrading print/amspsfnt, but the "DISTDIR > cannot be empty" error prevented doing the same for print/cmpsfont. > Although I admit to not showing some commands where I was hunting around > in the man page and looking at the portmaster script, I'm not aware of > doing anything significant other than what you see below, unless perhaps > I switched between one 'screen' window to another (ie. different shell > process). The fact that the problem was intermittent indicates something environmental. > It doesn't make sense to me, but as you can see it worked > after querying the value of DISTDIR. This should not make any difference. I'm sorry you were inconvenienced by this, but there is no data here that I can use to debug. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/