make index strangeness after today's cvsup of ports tree

[Kent Stewart]

On Tuesday 15 July 2003 12:59 am, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 06:51:51PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote:
> > On Monday 14 July 2003 01:59 pm, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 21:36, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > > >     happy-idiot-talk:...ports/x11/xstroke:% make -V PORTSDIR
> > > >     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
> > > >     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
> > > >     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
> > > >     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
> > > >     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
> > > >     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
> > > >     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
> > > >     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
> > > >     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
> > > >     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
> > > >     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
> > > >     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
> > > >     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
> > > >     cd: can't cd to /devel/libgnugetopt
> > > >     ...
> > >
> > > Thanks for that explanation.., I imagine this is another one of
> > > those things that eventually sorts itself out..,
> >
> > The other thing that is happening is the following.from a dmesg
> >
> > maxproc limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7) and
> > login.conf(5). maxproc limit exceeded by uid 0, please see
> > tuning(7) and login.conf(5). maxproc limit exceeded by uid 0,
> > please see tuning(7) and login.conf(5).
> >
> > You get 3 or 4 of these while all of the above is going on.
>
> Yes.  make(1) is invoking itself recursively because of this bug. 
> The aposite term is "fork bomb".  Eventually you'll run out of system
> resources and the command will fail.  When Stacey said "sorts itself
> out", I believe he was talking about getting fixes committed to the
> ports tree.  He didn't mean that there would be loads of error
> messages printed out, and then the command would succeed anyhow.
>

The are a number of problems with building an INDEX[-5] at this point. 
The bitch message from Bento seems to be turned off at this moment. 
With out its constant reminder, things don't seem to get sorted out as 
fast :).

The "make index" runs with your latest patch but a "make index" on a 
5-current systems shows some of the problems that exist with 
/usr/ports/print and the epson printers. On a 4-stable system, you 
don't see the message but you can view an INDEX and the entry for 
pips2200 and the entries for a number of nearby ports looks strange.

On a 5-current system, there are many other messages for other ports.  
These just stand out above the rest.

One side effect, it caused me to deal with my local mirror. I had it on 
a small HD and had never got around to adding the last 256MB of memory. 
Everything was on the system that I was using to do my builds on. Doing 
builds from KDE on the machine with the mirror was causing a little bit 
of swaping. Moving the mirror to a different system left a lot more 
machine available for portupgrade's tools to do their thing while the 
port structure was being updated on the other systems.

Kent

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Kent Stewart
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