Re: Ports failing with bsd make

From: Kirill Ponomarew <krion_at_voodoo.oberon.net>
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 22:54:20 +0100
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 10:50:33PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Sunday, 2. January 2005 22:23, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 09:17:44PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > > On recent -current, several ports are failing to build. Common quality:
> > > They all use the system make rather than gmake.
> > >
> > > Examples: science/hdf, textproc/Wordnet, devel/qmake.
> > >
> > > The errors all look pretty similar:
> > >
> > > ===> mfhdf/nctest (all)
> > > make: don't know how to make nctest.1. Stop
> > > ...
> > >
> > > make: don't know how to make wn.1. Stop
> > > ...
> > >
> > > make: don't know how to make qmake.1. Stop
> > >
> > > Looks like they're all failing while trying to generate manpages. Has
> > > make become allergic to targets with a dot in them perhaps?
> >
> > Ruslan's NO_* change broke a lot of ports.  He's currently on vacation
> > for a few days, but I expect he'll fix these when he gets back.  If
> > you want to do it in the meantime (although we're in ports freeze
> > anyway so this won't be committed until after), the port needs to set
> > *both* NOMAN and NO_MAN (similarly for any other options like NOSHARED
> > and NOPROFILE), for compatibility with both 6.x and older.
> 
> Hm - none of those ports set either NO_MAN or NOMAN at the moment (and isn't 
> this a base-system switch?). Is my build environment wonky?

They're defined in software makefiles.

-Kirill

Received on Sun Jan 02 2005 - 20:54:28 UTC

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