make index strangeness after today's cvsup of ports tree

[Stacey Roberts]

Hello Matthew,

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 21:36, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 09:20:38PM +0100, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> > Hello,
> >      After today's cvsup'd ports tree (and portupgrade of gnome-2 to
> > latest in ports), make index returns some weird messages.
> > 
> > Here is the tail of it:
> > cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
> > cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
> > cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
> > cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
> > cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
> > cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
> > "Makefile", line 27: warning: Couldn't exec "cd /devel/libgnugetopt; 
> > make -V WRKSRC"
> > "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1632: warning: Couldn't exec "id -u"
> > "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1680: warning: Couldn't exec
> > "/usr/bin/basename /usr/ports/x11/xstroke"
> > "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1691: warning: Couldn't exec
> > "/usr/sbin/pkg_info -P 2>/dev/null | /usr/bin/sed -e 's/.*: //'"
> > "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2379: warning: Couldn't exec "/bin/cat
> > /var/db/port.mkversion"
> > Cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
> > "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1691: warning: "/usr/sbin/pkg_info -P
> > 2>/dev/null | /usr/bin/sed -e 's/.*: //'" returned non-zero status
> >  Done.
> > #
> > 
> > Does anyone know what these messages mean?
> 
> Someone made an error when committing to ports and consequently 'make
> index' goes bezerk.  I just noticed that myself.  The offending line
> appears to be:
> 
>     GETOPTDIR!=     cd ${PORTSDIR}/devel/libgnugetopt; make -V WRKSRC
> 
> in the x11/xstroke port.  If you try and run any make command, you'll
> get a similar effect:
> 
>     happy-idiot-talk:...ports/x11/xstroke:% make -V PORTSDIR
>     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
>     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
>     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
>     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
>     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
>     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
>     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
>     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
>     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
>     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
>     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
>     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
>     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
>     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
>     ...
> 

Thanks for that explanation.., I imagine this is another one of those
things that eventually sorts itself out..,

Cheers!

Stacey

> Etc. ad nauseam.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
-- 
Stacey Roberts
B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science

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