From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 1 18:14:08 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 30C7F106566C for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 18:14:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glarkin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail1.sourcehosting.net (mail1.sourcehosting.net [74.205.51.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 071198FC17 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 18:14:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 68-189-245-235.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com ([68.189.245.235] helo=imac.entropy.prv) by mail1.sourcehosting.net with esmtp (Exim 4.73 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1RWB8v-0006xK-M1; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:14:04 -0500 Received: from imac.entropy.prv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imac.entropy.prv (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEC5FC2617E; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 13:14:00 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4ED7C3E8.70503@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:14:00 -0500 From: Greg Larkin Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111103 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: RW References: <4ED78337.1070601@bananmonarki.se> <4ED78AFE.4000402@FreeBSD.org> <20111201172130.1f27ea51@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20111201172130.1f27ea51@gumby.homeunix.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 OpenPGP: id=1C940290 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 68.189.245.235 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: glarkin@FreeBSD.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on mail1.sourcehosting.net X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_PBL, RCVD_IN_RP_RNBL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL, RDNS_DYNAMIC, TVD_RCVD_IP autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mail1.sourcehosting.net) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird stuff X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: glarkin@FreeBSD.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:14:08 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/1/11 12:21 PM, RW wrote: > 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. Yes, I noticed that and have been trying to figure out why the shell variable "optionsdir" seems to be empty. I can't see how that's possible yet, but I can't wait to find out! - -g - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. http://twitter.com/cpucycle/ - Follow you, follow me -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk7Xw+gACgkQ0sRouByUApDo6QCfaV9YM94ryI3GcAqzhqp3e4+j zoMAoLlXwq3TlB6UUBN3C2VD9iwQtUqv =6eEc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----