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Date:      Wed, 3 Mar 2004 20:38:36 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Cc:        Richard Dawes <rdawes@epstais.com>
Subject:   Re: Is 'make index' broken?  Suggestions?
Message-ID:  <200403032038.36790.kstewart@owt.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040303221112.GA64321@epstais.com>
References:  <20040303221112.GA64321@epstais.com>

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On Wednesday 03 March 2004 02:11 pm, Richard Dawes wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I'm not a ports developer or maintainer, but I'm curious...
>
> For a while now, it seems, I haven't been able to generate
> a valid INDEX file, and the one I can cvsup is now a couple
> weeks old...
>
> FTR, I am past all the portupgrade issues.  I haven't seen
> any postings about this specically, but I'm wondering if
> this has anything to do with Kris's repeated "INDEX build
> failed" postings - which appear to be some sort of automatic
> output for ports developers.
>
> I have been getting similar "make_index: ... no entry..."
> output, which for me keeps ending like so:
>
>
> make_index: gauche-readline-0.1: no entry for /usr/ports/lang/gauche
> make_index: gauche-readline-0.1: no entry for /usr/ports/lang/gauche
> Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: *** Error code 1
> Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry:
>  Done.
>
>
> Then, for portupgrade to work much at all, I have to restore
> a backup copy of INDEX...
>
> Any suggestions?  If this is some known situation, would
> someone kindly point me to an online discussion/explanation
> available?  Thanks!!

Figure out what you have done wrong with your cvsup or refuse. You have 
something missing or too many refuses. Make index was having problems 
from 2 to 3 March but not that port.

Kent

> -Rich

-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html



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