portlint: FATAL: Makefile: [1]: old style headers found.

Guido Falsi mad at madpilot.net
Wed Jun 19 10:53:44 UTC 2013


On 06/19/13 12:50, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> devel/robodoc/Makefile:
>
> # New ports collection makefile for:    robodoc
> # Date created:                         15 Dec 1999
> # Whom:                                 Will Andrews <andrews at technologist.com>
> #
> # $FreeBSD: branches/RELENG_9_1_0/devel/robodoc/Makefile 300896 2012-07-14 13:54:48Z beat $
> #
>
> portlint version 2.14.3 gives:
>
> FATAL: Makefile: [1]: old style headers found.
>
> The header seems to be consistent with:
>
> http://docs.freebsd.org/doc/9.0-RELEASE/usr/share/doc/freebsd/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.html#PORTING-SAMPLEM
>
> What's the problem?
>

That's a quite old version of the porter's handbook, please use the 
latest one:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/

At one point the header format has been changed, you can read about the 
change here:

http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2012/09/17/change-to-the-header-in-ports-makefiles-take-two/

Hope this helps.

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>


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