newbie problem building fetchmail from ports

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Marty Landman wrote:

> Any advice on what to do here?
>
> # cd ../../mail/fetchmail
> # make build && make install && rehash && which fetchmail
> >> fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
> >> Attempting to fetch from http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/.
> Receiving fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz (1089936 bytes): 100% (ETA 00:00)
> 1089936 bytes transferred in 1050.8 seconds (1.01 kBps)
> ===>  Extracting for fetchmail-6.2.0
> >> Checksum OK for fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz.
> ===>  Patching for fetchmail-6.2.0
> ===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for fetchmail-6.2.0
> ===>   fetchmail-6.2.0 depends on executable: gmake - not found
> ===>    Verifying install for gmake in /usr/ports/devel/gmake
> ===>   gmake-3.80 depends on shared library: intl.4 - not found
> ===>    Verifying install for intl.4 in /usr/ports/devel/gettext
> ===>   gettext-0.11.5_1 depends on executable: libtool - found
> ===>   gettext-0.11.5_1 depends on shared library: iconv.3 - found
> ===>   gettext-0.11.5_1 depends on shared library: expat.4 - found
> ===>  Configuring for gettext-0.11.5_1
> /bin/rm /usr/ports/devel/gettext/work/gettext-0.11.5/doc/gettext.info*
> rm: /usr/ports/devel/gettext/work/gettext-0.11.5/doc/gettext.info*: No 
> such file or directory
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gettext.
> *** Error code 1


Dunno for sure.  Obviously we have a problem
with make expecting something that's not there.

It's possible that:

    1.  You should just try to install gettext first,
    and you will get more insight into the issue.

    2.  You could re-cvsup the ports tree and try
    again and it would work.

    3.  You could issue
        #touch /usr/ports/devel/gettext/work/gettext-0.11.5/doc/gettext.info
           as root and see what happens next ;-)

It's obvious that I'm grasping at straws, but if
we wait around a while, somebody smarter will
likely pipe up ...

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.