HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT

[Beech Rintoul]

On Wednesday 28 September 2011 12:53:23 Beech Rintoul wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 September 2011 12:47:50 Doug Barton wrote:
> > On 09/28/2011 13:45, Beech Rintoul wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 28 September 2011 12:18:47 Doug Barton wrote:
> > >> On 09/28/2011 12:39, Hartmann, O. wrote:
> > >>> The mess started to happen when I tried to "repair" a non CLANG
> > >>> compiling port math/gotoblas with portmaster -vf amth/gotoblas.
> > >>> Since this build binutils and even gettext and libiconv, I guess they
> > >>> got broken. Last I saw was a successful installation report from
> > >>> portmaster. But the libiconv.so.3 wasn't there anymore when I
> > >>> checked!
> > >>> 
> > >>> This is a catastrophy ...
> > >>> 
> > >>> I'm on FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT r225844
> > >> 
> > >> It's been widely reported on the ports list that you can't do fresh
> > >> ports compiles on 10-current, and won't be able to until well after
> > >> 9.0-RELEASE. The primary reason is that auto* stuff doesn't understand
> > >> the 2-digit release version.
> > >> 
> > >> Solutions are to set UNAME_r=9.0-CURRENT in your environment, and/or
> > >> twiddle the version in newvers.sh and rebuild/reinstall your kernel.
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> hth,
> > >> 
> > >> Doug
> > > 
> > > So if I change /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh to something like vers 9.9
> > > I'm not going to shoot myself in the foot if I try and update? I would
> > > really like to avoid downgrading this box.I've altready been bitten
> > > once today and had to build packages on my tindy and force install.
> > 
> > That should be the case, yes. I haven't tested it yet myself. If you do,
> > and it works, let us know and I'll write the UPDATING entry if no one
> > else does.
> 
> No problem, I'm building now. Any suggestions as to what port I should try
> after the reboot?

I'm now at 9.9 and gawk built without problems. So this seems to work at least 
for the time being. Thanks for the fix, even if it is temporary. :-) If anyone 
else has a problem port let me know, I'd be happy to run a few.

Beech

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