Makefile error when update

Yuan Jue yuanjue122 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 7 04:56:23 PDT 2005


On Wednesday 07 September 2005 19:32, zlatozar wrote:
> I haven't backup( or I never restore from backup). Any ideas ?
>

Can you install libbonoboui-2.10.1 from port directly? see if this will solve 
the problem.

> > > Last night I tried to update my FreeBSD system. After cvsup I run
> > > portupgrade -varRp.
> > > See error message:
> > > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> > > libbonoboui-2.10.1: Makefile error: category x11-toolkits not in list
> > > of valid categories.
> > > *** Error code 1
> >
> > If you've already have a backup /var/db/pkg using "pkgdb -F" before you
> > portupgrade all the port, maybe you can cover the new pkg folder in
> > /var/db
> > with the old one you saved and portupgrade again. I am not sure is it a
> > right
> > workaround, but it worked for me when I encountered the similar problem.
> >
> > And there is one more thing need to be mentioned. You should not run two
> > or
> > more portupgrade commands at the same time.
> >
> > Good luck.
> >
> > --
> > Best Regards.
> >
> > Yuan Jue

-- 
Best Regards.

Yuan Jue


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