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Date:      Thu, 4 May 2000 18:10:33 -0400
From:      Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
To:        Matt Gostick <matt@crazylogic.net>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gd 1.8.1 oddity
Message-ID:  <20000504181033.C1642@argon.blackdawn.com>
In-Reply-To: <006a01bfb614$98ada060$0300a8c0@king>; from matt@crazylogic.net on Thu, May 04, 2000 at 06:03:32PM -0400
References:  <006a01bfb614$98ada060$0300a8c0@king>

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On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 06:03:32PM -0400, Matt Gostick wrote:
> I'm having a problem installing gd on my FreeBSD-4.0 RELEASE system.
> Here is a cropped example of what's happening.
> 
> su-2.03# make
> >> .tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system.
> >> Attempting to fetch from http://www.boutell.com/gd/http/.
> Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/gd.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Notice that the file name is empty.
> 
> I downloaded the latest gd.tar port from the web site today...
> Is this a know issue?  I imagine it is just missing something in 
> the Makefile...  unfortunatley I don't know enough about the
> ports system to know how to fix it.  Anyone know off the top
> of there heads?

You should be updating ports-base whenever you update any portion of the
tree. Your problem here is the result of a massive ports + bsd.port.mk
change.

(I've always wondered why anyone would update any portion of the ports tree
and not update ports-base at the same time.)

-- 
Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
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