FreeBSD Port: help2man-1.36.2

[Sam Lawrance]

On 21/11/2005, at 10:35 AM, Daniel Dvorak wrote:

> Hello dear maintainer,
>
> I would like to ask you about help2man-1.36.2 port, but I am not  
> sure if it
> is right way and right place where to ask about it. So if I  
> mistake, I am
> sorry.
>
> Yesterday I did cvsup ports-supfile with cvstag=. and after that I  
> did "make
> fetchindex" in /usr/ports. I saw that my help2man-.1.36.1, which I  
> upgraded
> in the 28th of October, is not up-to-date and there is newer  
> version 1.36.2.
> Last time the port was upgraded properly.
>
> But yesterday, portupgrade was not successful in upgrading the port.
>
> I was not sure about portupgrade and I did full deinstalling the  
> port to be
> on the safe side and subsequently I did:
> 1. "cd /usr/ports/misc/help2man"
> 2. "portsclean -CD"
> 3. "make install clean"
>
> Here is output:
>
> # make install clean
> ===>  Extracting for help2man-1.36.2
> => MD5 Checksum OK for help2man-1.36.2.tar.gz.
> => SHA256 Checksum OK for help2man-1.36.2.tar.gz.
> ===>   help2man-1.36.2 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.7 -  
> found
> ===>  Patching for help2man-1.36.2
> ===>   help2man-1.36.2 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.7 -  
> found
> ===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for help2man-1.36.2
> ===>   help2man-1.36.2 depends on file:
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/mach/Locale/gettext.pm - not  
> found

...

> ===>  Checking if devel/p5-Locale-gettext already installed
> ===>   p5-gettext-1.03 is already installed

A typical cause of perl ports being "not found" but already installed  
is that you have upgraded your perl installation incorrectly.  Follow  
the instructions in /usr/ports/UPDATING for updating perl.