Is 'make index' broken? Suggestions?

[Richard Dawes]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:43:22AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 07:54:52AM -0800, Richard Dawes wrote:
> 
> > Did an update of ports-all/cvs as of Thu Mar  4 00:12:01 PST 2004 ...
> > Ran "make describe" under /usr/ports ...
> > End of the output as follows:
> > 
> > 
> > ===> editors/staroffice5
> > staroffice-5.1a|/usr/ports/editors/staroffice5|/usr/local|Integrated wordprocessor/dbase/spreadheet/drawing/chart/browser|/usr/ports/editors/staroffice5/pkg-descr|mb at imp.ch|editors linux|/usr/ports/archivers/unzip|/usr/ports/emulators/linux_base|
> > ===> editors/staroffice52
> > *** Error code 1
> 
> Strange, that port hasn't changed in 4 months.  What version of
> FreeBSD are you running?
> 
> Kris

Huh.  OK, here's my uname -a output...

FreeBSD epsdev.com 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 29 22:38:49 PST 2004     user at jail16.johncompanies.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/jail16  i386

...As you see might guess, this is (modified) jail(2) setup -- a
"virtual server", if it matters...

Here are the contents of my ports supfile:


*default host=cvsup13.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/usr
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=.
*default delete use-rel-suffix

*default compress

ports-all


In case my ports collection had been somehow corrupted beyond
what a cvsup-date could handle, or if my virtual server provider
installed a bad ports tree, I just did a completely new cvsup
checkout of that into an new, empty /usr/ports... Not that I
know it was really corrupted per se; just my being proactively
superstitious. :)  But I get the same problem with 'make index',
and after restoring the 2/17 good INDEX, I get the same error
for 'make describe', stopping at the editors/staroffice52 port.

Is there any other area in my system that affects the ports that
might be corrupted?

Thanks!

-Rich


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Richard Dawes
rdawes at epstais.com