What's going on with the SF macro?

[Olli Hauer]

On 2011-01-24 20:15, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 01/24/2011 03:13, Sunpoet Hsieh wrote:
>> Hi Doug,
>>
>> I suggest you to remove and checkout ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk again.
>> I've made a test on ports/net-p2p/qbittorrent-26/Makefile by changing
>> PORTVERSION from 2.6.3 to 2.6.4 and removing BROKEN.
>> The download finished without errors.
> 
> Thanks for giving this a look. I'm not sure what the actual problem was/is, but
> my -current system which has been working well for over a week started last
> night to do very odd things, and this morning wedges almost instantly after I
> start X. I'm currently running on the 8.1-release partition on that same system,
> so it doesn't appear to be hardware, I have no idea what's going on. If it were
> windows I'd think I contracted a virus. :)
> 
> But in any case I can confirm that my port is working without changing anything,
> so clearly nothing is wrong with the SF macro. I suspected it after reading here
> that others were having problems, but I'm glad to hear that it's not more
> widespread.
> 

It will be interesting what the output of distilator, "make fetch-list" or
"make -V MASTER_SITES" displays when this happened. Maybe you have somewhere
a non printable sign in one file?

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olli