unassociated shell command

Da Rock freebsd-ports at herveybayaustralia.com.au
Thu Jan 12 22:42:04 UTC 2012


On 01/13/12 07:30, Chris Rees wrote:
> On 12 January 2012 06:27, Jason Helfman<jhelfman at e-e.com>  wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:25:26PM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith thus
>> spake:
>>> On 01/11/2012 10:14 PM, Da Rock wrote:
>>>>>>>> I'm still very new to this, but I'm almost complete on my first
>>>>>>>> port. I
>>>>>>>> do have an unusual error which crops up from time to time and I'm
>>>>>>>> usually able to fudge along and clear it- but this last little bit
>>>>>>>> won't
>>>>>>>> clear!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The particular lines in question are as follows:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> post-extract:
>>>>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>>>> .if defined(NOPORTDOCS)
>>>>>>>> @if [ -d ${WRKDIR}/usr/share/doc ]; then \
>>>>>>>> ${RM} -rf ${WRKDIR}/usr/share/doc; \
>>>>>>>> fi
>>>>>>>> PLIST_SUB+="@comment "
>>>>>>>> .else
>>>>>>>> PLIST_SUB+= PORTDOCS=""
>>>>>>>> .endif
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> and I get the following error make -DNOPORTDOCS install:
>>>>>>>> "Makefile", line 59: Unassociated shell command "@if [ -d
>>>>>>>> ${WRKDIR}/usr/share/doc ]; then ${RM} -rf ${WRKDIR}/usr/share/doc;
>>>>>>>> fi"
>>>>>>>> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What am I possibly missing? No googling helps, and I've tried many
>>>>>>>> different tricks that have worked in the past as ${DIRRM}, ${RM},
>>>>>>>> individual directory/file removal, etc.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The indentation is exactly as in the Makefile.
>>
>> Is the indentation whitespace, or using tabs? It should be tabs, in my
>> experience.
>>
> Quite right, it should be tabs!
>
> Also, no, you shouldn't (can't) set Make variables inside a target, as
> covered before.
>
> However... instead of
>
> .if defined(NOPORTDOCS)
> PLIST_SUB etc etc
>
> stuff, just remove all the PORTDOCS lines from pkg-plist, and use the
> magic variable PORTDOCS:
>
> PORTDOCS=	*
>
> :)
I must be a little slow this morning... I don't get it. How does that work?

I would like to point out also that the docs are 30/70 nss and pam 
related respectively. So if I install without pam then the pam docs are 
not installed.


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