[FAQ]Re: Problem building index:

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 12:18:48AM +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:09:16 -0500
> Glenn Sieb <ges+lists at wingfoot.org> wrote:
> 
> > /usr/ports 515 $ make index
> > \Generating INDEX - please wait..make: don't know how to make describe. Stop
> > ===> games/xblast-beta failed
> > *** Error code 1
> > 1 error
> 
> a `ls /usr/ports/games/xblast-beta` will show why.
> 
> The port got removed, but you most certainly have a README.html in it,
> who deasn't exist in cvs, so is wasn't deleted by cvsup, so the dir
> exists but with no Makefile in it `make describe` fails.

Actually the bug is that the committer (CCed) forgot to unhook the
directory from the parent makefile when he removed it from CVS.

Kris
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