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Date:      Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:38:03 +0100
From:      Piotrek <piokud84@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Cc:        Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: make install error VALID_CATEGOIES
Message-ID:  <20100228163803.ae0c79c9.piokud84@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100228152906.GE73563@atarininja.org>
References:  <20100228160404.87f65150.piokud84@gmail.com> <20100228152906.GE73563@atarininja.org>

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On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:29:06 -0500
Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 04:04:04PM +0100, Piotrek wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Recently when i try to instal anything from ports, i get this error
> > (for rg. when i try to install smplayer):
> > 
> > sng# make install
> > -wq: not found
> > smplayer-0.6.8_1: Makefile error: category multimedia not in list of
> > valid categories. *** Error code 1
> > 
> > Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/smplayer.
> > sng# 
> > 
> > bsd.port.mk looks like this:
> > 
> > VALID_CATEGORIES+= accessibility afterstep arabic archivers astro audio
> > \ benchmarks biology cad chinese comms converters databases \
> > deskutils devel docs dns editors elisp emulators finance french ftp \
> > games geography german gnome gnustep graphics hamradio haskell hebrew
> > hungarian \ ipv6 irc japanese java kde kld korean lang linux lisp \
> > mail math mbone misc multimedia net net-im net-mgmt net-p2p news \
> > palm parallel pear perl5 plan9 polish portuguese ports-mgmt \
> > print python ruby rubygems russian \
> > scheme science security shells spanish sysutils \
> > tcl textproc tk \
> > ukrainian vietnamese windowmaker www \
> > x11 x11-clocks x11-drivers x11-fm x11-fonts x11-servers x11-themes \
> > x11-toolkits x11-wm xfce zope
> > 
> > So i see that multimedia categry is on the list, i tryed to
> > delete /var/db/portsnap and /usr/ports and then execute portsnap fetch
> > extract, but i still get this error, any clue what is going on?
> 
> It looks like you have ${GREP} defined in your environment. It also
> looks like it is set to "".
> 
> wxs@ack git % printenv | grep GREP
> GREP=
> wxs@ack git % make
> -wq: not found
> git-1.7.0: Makefile error: category devel not in list of valid categories.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> -- WXS
Yes i have set GREP varible part of my .cshrc looks like this:

alias grep      grep --color
alias lsg       'ls | grep $1'
setenv  GREP COLOR=32

Do i have remove it to be able to use ports ??

-- 
Piotrek <piokud84@gmail.com>



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