Something rotten in ports (was Re: package building failure irritation)

[xorquewasp at googlemail.com]

> Have you tried just setting PORTSDIR and letting bsd.port.mk set the
> rest of the paths with their defaults that are relative to PORTSDIR?  If
> that works, then we can start hunting for places that are not handling
> absolute vs. relative paths correctly in bsd.port.mk.

Now, with only:

  PORTSDIR=/var/ports/tree

.. in make.conf, the error is:

Creating package /var/ports/tree/devel/eggdbus/eggdbus-0.6.tbz
Registering depends: dbus-glib-0.84 gio-fam-backend-2.22.4 gamin-0.1.10_3 glib-2.22.4 gettext-0.17_1 dbus-1.2.16_1 libxml2-2.7.6_1 libiconv-1.13.1_1 libX11-1.2.1_1,1 libxcb-1.5 libpthread-stubs-0.3_3 pcre-8.00 libXau-1.0.4 libXdmcp-1.0.2_1 xproto-7.0.15 pkg-config-0.23_1 perl-5.10.1 python26-2.6.4 gnome_subr-1.0 expat-2.0.1_1 kbproto-1.0.3.
Creating bzip'd tar ball in '/var/ports/tree/devel/eggdbus/eggdbus-0.6.tbz'
rmdir: /var/ports/tree/devel/eggdbus/work: Directory not empty
*** Error code 1 (ignored)
===>   Generating temporary packing list
Creating package /var/ports/tree/textproc/docbook-420/docbook-4.2.tbz
Registering depends: iso8879-1986_2 xmlcatmgr-2.2.
Creating bzip'd tar ball in '/var/ports/tree/textproc/docbook-420/docbook-4.2.tbz'
tar: share/sgml/docbook/4.2/ChangeLog: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: share/sgml/docbook/4.2/calstblx.dtd: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: share/sgml/docbook/4.2/catalog: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: share/sgml/docbook/4.2/catalog.xml: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: share/sgml/docbook/4.2/dbcentx.mod: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: share/sgml/docbook/4.2/dbgenent.mod: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: share/sgml/docbook/4.2/dbhierx.mod: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: share/sgml/docbook/4.2/dbnotnx.mod: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: share/sgml/docbook/4.2/dbpoolx.mod: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: share/sgml/docbook/4.2/docbook.cat: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: share/sgml/docbook/4.2/docbook.dcl: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: share/sgml/docbook/4.2/docbook.dtd: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: share/sgml/docbook/4.2/docbookx.dtd: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: share/sgml/docbook/4.2/soextblx.dtd: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: share/sgml/docbook/4.2/README: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
pkg_create: make_dist: tar command failed with code 256
*** Error code 1

Stop in /var/ports/tree/textproc/docbook-420.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /var/ports/tree/textproc/docbook-420.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /var/ports/tree/graphics/inkscape.

Regards,
xw