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Date:      10 Sep 2002 23:21:38 +0100
From:      Stacey Roberts <stacey@Demon.vickiandstacey.com>
To:        "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
Cc:        Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx>, sroberts@dsl.pipex.com, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: portsdb -Uu returns multiple "make: fatal errors encountered --cannot continue: malformed entry: make: fatal errors encountered -- cannotcontinue" statements
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Hi Jack,
   Thanks for the comments.

I should be sure to make you aware that the problems I am having center
around what I believe to be a problem with my ports tree (/usr/ports)
after running cvsup supfile (from cvsup2.uk.FreeBSD.org) last night.

Following as I do the advice issued from this list time and time again,
after doing my customary portsdb -Uu after cvsup, the output was almost
all (as in the subject line) errors of a nature I'd never seen before
(hence my post).

Running pkgdb -F did not returned any inconsistencies, but running "make
clean" in /usr/ports overnight crashed with the same errors as early as
/usr/ports/chinese dir. Thinking (hoping) that it might be a one off, I
restarted make clean, but it crashed again at the same point, and a
third time (after another cvsup ports-supfile). Usually, I wouldn't be
too concerned about portsdb -Uu returning errors, but its the fact that
I now cannot run "make clean" that worries me.

This is the situation I have, which (I believe) really related to a
problem with the state of my "world" environment.

I'd appreciate your thoughts though, on what I've described here.,

For Adam's information, portsdb -fUu returned the same errors as
observed with portsdb -Uu, so I might as well attempt to rebuild the
ports tree his way.

Stacey

On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 23:08, Jack L. Stone wrote:
> At 02:35 PM 9.10.2002 -0700, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> >>> (09.10.2002 @ 1429 PST): Stacey Roberts said, in 5.5K: <<
> >> To be honest, I can't see how it could be anything else other than
> >> something bad with what happened with the cvsup I did last night from
> >> cvsup2.uk.FreeBSD.org.
> >
> >see, i don't know. from time to time, weird things like this just
> >HAPPEN. sometimes portsdb -fUu, pkgdb -f, etc. will resolve the problem.
> >i've never resolved it by hosing and reupdating the tree.
> >
> >> This procedure came to an end last night with all these errors. One
> >> further thing - about your cvsup target: cvsup.FreeBSD.org.
> >> Is this where I could ensure getting the latest ports tree from?
> >
> >not at all. it was just the easiest place to tell you to cvsup from. do
> >you normally cvsup from /usr/share/examples/cvsup? if so, you should
> >consider copying the supfile elsewhere and editing it, otherwise when
> >you installworld you'll overwrite the changes you've made.
> >
> >-Adam
> >
>=20
> Stacey, I just returned to the list and see your further questions. In th=
is
> case, I would usually just use my standard sup-file after deleting the
> /usr/ports (entirely)
> # rm -rf /usr/ports
> Then run the cvsup which would grap the latest ports too. Then be sure to=
 run
> # make index
> ...to make sure all is correct. Now try your "world" update again....
>=20
> If that didn't clear up the make/installworld, I'd delete /usr/src and
> /usr/obj, then cvsup again.... ought to fix things.....
>=20
>=20
> Best regards,
> Jack L. Stone,
> Administrator
>=20
> SageOne Net
> http://www.sage-one.net
> jackstone@sage-one.net
>=20
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Stacey Roberts
B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science

Web: www.vickiandstacey.com

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