Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:25:02 +0100 From: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org> To: "pobox@verysmall.org" <pobox@verysmall.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lang/perl5.8 fails Message-ID: <20071127092502.GD83618@heechee.tobez.org> In-Reply-To: <474BE0CF.8030105@verysmall.org> References: <474B2313.2090409@verysmall.org> <1196109636.19259.7.camel@outcold.yadt.co.uk> <474BDAC7.50803@verysmall.org> <20071127090239.GC83618@heechee.tobez.org> <474BE0CF.8030105@verysmall.org>
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:18:07AM +0100, pobox@verysmall.org wrote: > Anton Berezin wrote: >> Without knowing at what stage of the portupgrade process you got this >> problem - just guessing - it might have confused bsd.port.mk when it >> invoked >> stuff in bsd.apache.mk (because of USE_APACHE statement) while the old >> perl >> was deinstalled. > > It happened when portupgrade tried to install the new version (after > backing up the old version). Then this error came and portupgrade > reinstalled the old version. Right, so as I said - apxs could not be invoked because there was no perl isntalled at that particular instant. > Thinking in retrospective - /etc/make.conf was perhaps not the best place > to put USE_APACHE=2.2 when I needed it only for php. Well yeah, we are not Gentoo. But we should probably not fail in such not-so obvious manner here, anyway. \Anton. -- We're going for 'working' here. 'clean' is for people with skills... -- Flemming Jacobsen
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