"make index" after latest cvsup of ports tree seg faults

[Kent Stewart]

On Saturday 05 April 2003 11:32 am, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 05:05:28PM +0100, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 18:46, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 06:04:57PM +0100, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >      Today I cvsup'd my ports tree and after portupgrading (-R)
> > > > all ports that required updating, running "make index" fails
> > > > with a segmentation fault error: # make index
> > > > Generating INDEX - please wait..Out of memory!
> > > > Attempt to free unreferenced scalar at
> > > > /usr/ports/Tools/make_index line 44, <> chunk 8427.
>
> [...deletia...]
>
> > > This was a cyclic dependency introduced into the Xft port by
> > > mistake. It's been fixed now: re-cvsup, make sure you've got
> > > version 1.149 or better of ports/x11-fonts/Xft/Makefile and
> > > everything should be OK again.
> >
> > After waiting to today to re-cvsup the ports tree.., and updating
> > various ports., make index now fails with a difference (see below).
> > Is there another reason for this failure, perhaps?
> >
> > Here the end of the "make index" run after today's cvsup of ports
> > tree: make_index: avidemux-0.9.0.101: no entry for
> > /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtk12
> > make_index: avidemux-0.9.0.101: no entry for
> > /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-libraries
> > make_index: mutt-1.4.1: no entry for /usr/ports/textproc/sgmlformat
> > make_index: ko-pgp-2.6.3: no entry for /usr/ports/security/pgp
> > make_index: imaze-xview-1.4: no entry for
> > /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/xview make_index: imaze-xview-1.4: no entry
> > for
>
> [...deletia...]
>
> Hmmm... All I can say (and it won't be much help to you) is that it
> works just fine for me.  There's one warning about a port which has a
> strange version number, but otherwise it's all completely smooth.
>
> About the only thing I can think of is if you've got a few more
> chunks of ports than is really healthy listed in your cvsup refuse
> file.

I don't have anything in my refuse file beyond ports/INDEX and it was 
failing at 1800 UTC. A "make index" would only produce and INDEX.db 
with 6000+ ports. To get a more realistic count, I had to run "portsdb 
-uU".

Kent

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