Dependent ports get "does not exist" errors

[Garrett Cooper]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
> A user desktop system had a solid, reliable install of 6.3 on it.  Did an
> upgrade via source to 7-stable as of this morning.
>
> Deleted all installed ports, updated the ports tree, then started installing
> them from scratch.
>
> Here's the problem: ports that depend on other ports will occasionally
> install those ports and then not find them.  For example, installing gimp:
>
> cd /usr/ports/graphics/gimp
> make install
> [...]
> ===>   Compressing manual pages for bash-3.2.48_1
> ===>   Registering installation for bash-3.2.48_1
> ===>   Returning to build of rarian-0.8.1
> Error: file "bash" does not exist
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/textproc/rarian
> [...]
> Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/gimp
>
> Doing just "make install" again will find bash and continue.
>
> Nothing has been changed (knowingly, anyway) from default in the ports
> system.  make.conf only has perl version settings.  This is an MSI Athlon
> motherboard, 256M RAM, totally solid previously.  Seems solid now, except
> for this...
>
> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA

    Stale $PATH (hash -r / rehash)?
Cheers,
-Garrett