"postfix-current" broken on amd64 platform

[Sahil Tandon]

It was marked broken on a particular architecture, hence the genesis of this thread.  I appreciate that diagnosis is difficult; perhaps Olli's suggestion is helpful in isolating the issue.  I do not know how else to troubleshoot since these pointyhat errors are not - AFAIK - reproducible by others, on either i386 or amd64 platforms.

On Nov 15, 2011, at 4:45 AM, Pav Lucistnik <pav at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> 1) The problem is not amd64 specific
> 
> 2) No point unmarking BROKEN, it currently fails on i386 pointyhat nodes
> too
> 
> 3) Diagnosis is hard because the postfix-install shell script prints no
> useful progress messages
> 
> Example failure log:
> http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-errorlogs/e.8.20111103071512/postfix-current-2.9.20111012,4.log
> 
> Sahil Tandon píše v po 14. 11. 2011 v 21:24 -0500:
>> [ pav@ and those who tested mail/postifx-current on amd64 added to Cc: ]
>> 
>> On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 08:37:13 -0500, Jerry wrote:
>> 
>>> The "postfix-current" port is still marked as broken:
>>> 
>>> .if ${ARCH} == "amd64"
>>> BROKEN=         fails during installation
>>> .endif
>>> 
>>> Since all previous releases of Postfix worked on FreeBSD, and since
>>> Postfix is/was developed on FreeBSD, I was wondering what the problem
>>> is with this release. Is there a possibility that this phenomena might
>>> be rectified in the near future?
>> 
>> Thanks for your report, Jerry.  You are correct that FreeBSD is the main
>> development platform for Postfix.  It seems that pointyhat's amd64
>> machine throws an error during the install phase.  Pav noticed this and
>> marked the port BROKEN; however, neither I nor a few others I've
>> enlisted can reproduce the error.  Would you mind removing the
>> conditional that marks this port BROKEN, try to build/install in your
>> amd64 environment, and report the results? 
>> 
>> Pav, if nobody else can reproduce the error seen on pointyhat, can
>> portmgr look into whether there is something quirky with the amd64
>> pointyhat machine?
>> 
> 
> -- 
> -- 
> Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
>              <pav at FreeBSD.org>
> Two sausages are in a frying pan. One says, "Geez, it's hot in here
> isn't it?" And the other one says, "Aaaaaah! A talking sausage!"