fatal error from /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.linux-apps.mk

[William Bulley]

On Friday I ran the following:

  # cd /usr/local/etc/cvsup
  # csup -L2 ports-supfile
  # csup -L2 doc-supfile
  # csup -L2 stable-supfile   (tag=RELENG_7)

I then rebuilt the world and installed it.  When I rebooted,
I was very pleasantly surprised to find:

  % uname -a
  FreeBSD freebsd 7.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-PRERELEASE #0:
  Fri Apr 24 16:13:56 EDT 2009 [snip] i386

I began the process of rebuilding my all ports on Saturday:

  # pkg_delete -a
  # \rm -rf /usr/ports/*/work

Things progressed fine until I started building any ports
having some dependency on Linux emulation:

  [this is true for /usr/ports/print/acroread8 and 9
   astro/google-earth, multimedia/linux-realplayer,
   www/opera-linuxplugins, etc.]

  # make install clean
  "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.linux-apps.mk", line 72: Malformed conditional
  (${LINUX_DIST_SUFFIX}=="")
  "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.linux-apps.mk", line 130: Malformed conditional
  (${LINUX_DIST_SUFFIX} == "-f8")
  Error expanding embedded variable.

Here are the relevant settings in the indicated files:

   /etc/fstab
   linprocfs   /compat/linux/proc   linprocfs   rw          0  0

   # kldstat
   Id Refs Address    Size     Name
   1   12 0xc0400000 48d204   kernel
   2    1 0xc088e000 6a45c    acpi.ko
   3    1 0xc5403000 7000     linprocfs.ko
   4    1 0xc540f000 22000    linux.ko

   /etc/rc.conf
   linux_enable="YES"

   /etc/make.conf
   OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=f9
   OVERRIDE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS=f9

   /etc/sysctl.conf
   compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16

I don't know what to do to fix this problem.  I don't
know whether I should submit a pr or try to determine
what is going on myself.  Not sure I would succeed at
the latter.  Please advise.  If more information or
detail is required, let me know.

The next thing I will try is changing /etc/make.conf
to override "f8" instead of "f9"

Regards,

web...

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William Bulley                     Email: web at umich.edu

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