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Date:      Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:39:33 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Carl <k0802647@telus.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portmaster issue: "The value of DISTDIR cannot be empty"
Message-ID:  <4E06E235.5020004@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E059769.2050805@telus.net>
References:  4DC0742E.1050104@gmail.com <4E059769.2050805@telus.net>

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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

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