Re: Ports failing with bsd make

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 15:05:41 +0200
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 01:23:35PM -0800, 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.
> 
I'm back, and this should all be fixed now.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru_at_FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

Received on Sun Jan 09 2005 - 12:05:58 UTC

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