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Date:      Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:23:31 -0500
From:      Peter Clark <clarkp@mtmary.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Make Question
Message-ID:  <4A3159B3.5090009@mtmary.edu>

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Hello,

I have inherited an old FreeBSD 5.1 machine(5.1-RELEASE-p18). I realize 
that the short answer to my question is more than likely to upgrade the 
OS to a current release and I would if I had that option right now, but 
I do not. I needed to upgrade the perl/openssh/openssl implementation on 
this box. My first thought was to use the port on the machine that was 
from that era but make fails. So then I thought to csup the ports tree 
and try with a new version, that fails as well. The error is as follows:

make config
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1780: warning: String comparison 
operator should be either == or !=
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1780: Malformed conditional 
((${OSVERSION} >= 700007 || ${OSVERSION} < 700000))
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1780: Missing dependency operator
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 6276: if-less endif
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 6276: Need an operator
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue

I even tried to run portmanager -s to see what condition all the ports 
were in and that same failure showed up:

portmanager -s
------------------------------------------------------------------------
portmanager 0.4.1_9: Collecting installed port data
------------------------------------------------------------------------
00026 perl-5.10.0_3 /lang/perl5.10
------------------------------------------------------------------------
libtool-1.3.4_4 /devel/libtool is no longer in the ports collection, see 
/usr/ports/MOVED
this port must be removed for portmanager to continue
is it OK to remove libtool-1.3.4_4 from your system? (yes/no/auto yes to 
all) [y/n/a] [y]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Will timeout after 5 minutes and default to [Y] if no selection is made
y
------------------------------------------------------------------------
removing: libtool-1.3.4_4
/usr/sbin/pkg_delete -f libtool-1.3.4_4
executing: /bin/rm -r /usr/ports/devel/libtool (OK to ignore error)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
00025 expat-2.0.1 /textproc/expat2
00024 gettext-0.17_1 /devel/gettext
00023 libtool-1.5.26 /devel/libtool15
00022 libiconv-1.11_1 /converters/libiconv
00021 gmake-3.81_3 /devel/gmake
00020 ezm3-1.2_1 /lang/ezm3
00019 cvsup-without-gui-16.1h_4 /net/cvsup-without-gui
00018 db41-4.1.25_4 /databases/db41
00017 pam_pwdfile-0.95_1 /security/pam_pwdfile
00016 cyrus-sasl-2.1.23 /security/cyrus-sasl2
00015 openssl-0.9.8k_2 /security/openssl
00014 makedepend-1.0.1,1 /devel/makedepend
00013 xproto-7.0.15 /x11/xproto
00012 pkg-config-0.23_1 /devel/pkg-config
00011 rc_subr-1.31_1 /sysutils/rc_subr
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1780: warning: String comparison 
operator should be either == or !=
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1780: Malformed conditional 
((${OSVERSION} >= 700007 || ${OSVERSION} < 700000))
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1780: Missing dependency operator
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 6276: if-less endif
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 6276: Need an operator
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
MGdbAdd error: attempt to place null data into record halted
Assertion failed: (0), function MGdbAdd, file MGdbAdd.c, line 78.
Abort (core dumped)

The very first thing I did in all this was to upgrade perl to 5.10. The 
upgrade was successful but the rebuild of the perl dependent ports was not:

  portupgrade -fr perl

[Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... ** Stale lock 
file was found. Removed.
- 25 packages found (-1 +1) (...). done]
** Makefile possibly broken: mail/cyrus-imapd2:
         "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1780: warning: String 
comparison operator should be either == or !=
         "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1780: Malformed conditional 
((${OSVERSION} >= 700007 || ${OSVERSION} < 700000))
         "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1780: Missing dependency operator
         "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 6276: if-less endif
         "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 6276: Need an operator
         make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
/usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:1468:in `get_pkgname': Makefile broken 
(MakefileBrokenError)
         from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:622:in `main'
         from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:613:in `each'
         from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:613:in `main'
         from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:588:in `catch'
         from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:588:in `main'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1310:in `call'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1310:in `parse_in_order'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1306:in `catch'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1306:in `parse_in_order'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1254:in `catch'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1254:in `parse_in_order'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1248:in `order!'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1241:in `order'
         from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:565:in `main'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:791:in `initialize'
         from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:229:in `new'
         from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:229:in `main'
         from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:2208


In that last piece I see that the initial offender is cyrus-imapd2 but I 
see those "/usr/ports/Mk.bsd.port.mk" lines as errors in other ports... 
I am not sure if this is just caused by the cyrus port, make in general 
or something inherently broken in that 5.1 install. Any help to 
resolving this is appreciated.

Peter








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