From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 14 17:05:21 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E1DE16A4CE for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:05:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mci-mail.nodes.net.ad-flow.com (mci-mail.nodes.net.ad-flow.com [66.48.68.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B45FE43D31 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:05:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@danielquinn.org) Received: from douglas ([66.59.162.146]) (authenticated)j0EH5D303508 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:05:14 GMT Exocomm-Delivery-Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:05:14 GMT Exocomm-URL: www.exocomm.com From: daniel quinn To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:03:47 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501141203.47536.freebsd@danielquinn.org> Subject: can't build gettext package X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:05:21 -0000 i've managed to build packages for everything else on the system, and gettext seems to compile and install just fine, but for some reason, building the package fails: ===> Building package for gettext-0.14.1 Creating package /usr/ports/packages/All/gettext-0.14.1.tbz Registering depends: libiconv-1.9.2_1. Creating bzip'd tar ball in '/usr/ports/packages/All/gettext-0.14.1.tbz' tar: include/autosprintf.h: Could not stat: No such file or directory tar: lib/libasprintf.a: Could not stat: No such file or directory tar: lib/libasprintf.so: Could not stat: No such file or directory tar: lib/libasprintf.so.0: Could not stat: No such file or directory tar: share/doc/libasprintf/autosprintf.html: Could not stat: No such file or directory pkg_create: make_dist: tar command failed with code 256 *** Error code 1 now i understand what the error means, what i don't understand is why the error exists in the first place. if these files aren't created with the initial make, why is the packager trying to include them? and how do i fix this? -- "the nationalist not only does not dissaprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." - george orwell