From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 1 17:21:36 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C38D9106564A for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 17:21:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C0DA8FC13 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 17:21:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eaai12 with SMTP id i12so3413050eaa.13 for ; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:21:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=vdqSgKrvRlOCwiK+X22anJ2wyBjK7HrL7GyF6n3Du3I=; b=ssH40aD9StU667vzYRYsDN7E8ryX1pB4nTx9+lko8M9Vix3pP34yg4Pm0BsbhFtp/F xsFxORQAwLyNoUDExbpl+1YS5EgsKqcHPvCXqi6Uf4K0j9jSjF0GrkaaAv+21G9Mjbtw 0gMNOQlyrrBlJu5jO+1Qs4zakhPzUExzVrqDk= Received: by 10.213.114.18 with SMTP id c18mr643910ebq.68.1322760095459; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:21:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (87-194-105-247.bethere.co.uk. [87.194.105.247]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x12sm19504328eef.9.2011.12.01.09.21.32 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:21:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 17:21:30 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20111201172130.1f27ea51@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <4ED78AFE.4000402@FreeBSD.org> References: <4ED78337.1070601@bananmonarki.se> <4ED78AFE.4000402@FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Weird stuff X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:21:36 -0000 On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:11:10 -0500 Greg Larkin wrote: > Reading through /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, the "check permissions" > message is emitted when certain directories cannot be created. > The actual error is: ===> Cannot create , check permissions Note the space before the comma. I suspect it's trying to create a directory using an undefined name variable.