Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:59:28 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Ian FREISLICH <ianf@clue.co.za>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem building various ports (dependencies). Message-ID: <45D080D0.3050909@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20070212143827.GA88132@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <E1HGWls-000NPi-I4@clue.co.za> <45D07407.500@freebsd.org> <20070212143827.GA88132@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On 02/12/07 08:38, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 08:04:55AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: >> On 02/12/07 02:42, Ian FREISLICH wrote: >>> Eric Anderson wrote: >>>>> Is the problem with the way the ports collection detects the existence >>>>> of dependencies or with the way the dependencies are installed? >>>> I'm guessing it's the removal of objformat from the tree. You can try >>>> to grab the pre-removal version, and compile/install it. This helped me >>>> build my ports again. Painful. >>> Hmm. That would be it. Seems like it's been threatened for a long time. >>> >>> ---------------------------- >>> revision 1.19 >>> date: 2007/01/25 22:26:41; author: peter; state: dead; lines: +1 -1 >>> Retire objformat(1) as threatened in 2002. >>> >>> Ian >> >> Yep. I'm no ports guru, but seems like prior to whacking this, a quick >> burn through the ports should have been done. Not sure if it's >> happening now or not, but I just put objformat back to move on.. > > See the email I sent to ports the other week. Also make sure your > ports tree is up-to-date, yours looks like it's not. Well, I hit the problem before your email went out (a cc: to -current would have been good too, btw - unless I just missed it), and my ports are currently just 4 days old. Updating again now. Thanks for working hard to get rid of the objformat snafus.. Eric
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