Problem building various ports (dependencies).

[Eric Anderson]

On 02/12/07 08:38, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 08:04:55AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote:
>> On 02/12/07 02:42, Ian FREISLICH wrote:
>>> Eric Anderson wrote:
>>>>> Is the problem with the way the ports collection detects the existence
>>>>> of dependencies or with the way the dependencies are installed?
>>>> I'm guessing it's the removal of objformat from the tree.  You can try 
>>>> to grab the pre-removal version, and compile/install it.  This helped me 
>>>> build my ports again.  Painful.
>>> Hmm.  That would be it.  Seems like it's been threatened for a long time.
>>>
>>> ----------------------------
>>> revision 1.19
>>> date: 2007/01/25 22:26:41;  author: peter;  state: dead;  lines: +1 -1
>>> Retire objformat(1) as threatened in 2002.
>>>
>>> Ian
>>
>> Yep.  I'm no ports guru, but seems like prior to whacking this, a quick 
>> burn through the ports should have been done.  Not sure if it's 
>> happening now or not, but I just put objformat back to move on..
> 
> See the email I sent to ports the other week.  Also make sure your
> ports tree is up-to-date, yours looks like it's not.

Well, I hit the problem before your email went out (a cc: to -current 
would have been good too, btw - unless I just missed it), and my ports 
are currently just 4 days old.  Updating again now.

Thanks for working hard to get rid of the objformat snafus..

Eric