Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 16:46:02 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@chello.cz> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: Make index || portsdb -uU fails after cvsup Message-ID: <20040510144601.GA34606@isis.wad.cz> In-Reply-To: <p06020412bcc46aa632ed@[128.113.24.47]> References: <BCC2AE80.128AC%tomonage2@gmx.de> <20040508134709.GA35555@xor.obsecurity.org> <p0602040fbcc33d188518@[128.113.24.47]> <200405082024.26051.kstewart@owt.com> <p06020412bcc46aa632ed@[128.113.24.47]>
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# drosih@rpi.edu / 2004-05-09 19:33:23 -0400:
> If I:
> cd /usr/ports/arabic
> make describe
>
> then it works perfectly fine. However, that is not what the above
> error message complains about. The error says:
>
> don't know how to make _arabic.describe.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> and "_arabic.describe" *is* the target which is bsd.ports.subdir.mk
> is trying to make. And it is trying to make that in /usr/ports, not
> in /usr/ports/arabic, because there is no 'cd' in the section which
> does the '@${MAKE} -B ${i:S/^/_/:S/$/.describe/} ...'
>
> In fact, if I put a debugging printf in that target, it is:
>
> making _accessibility.describe in /usr/obj/usr/ports
>
> I don't see how that can possibly work for anyone.
Kris has already told you to get rid of /usr/obj/usr/ports
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