ports/51177: [PATCH] mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin fails to install

[Michael O. Boev]

The following reply was made to PR ports/51177; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Michael O. Boev" <mike at tric.tomsk.gov.ru>
To: <freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org>,
	"Michael O. Boev" <mike at tric.tomsk.gov.ru>
Cc: <freebsd-ports at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: ports/51177: [PATCH] mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin fails to install
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 15:34:27 +0700

 Hello everyone!
 
 I've made some further investigations on this subject...
 There's some weird makefile logic about setting .OBJDIR for ports...
 
 Here's my setup.
 
 1) I have a nightly checkout of ports in
 /srv/FreeBSD/ports
 to which I used to symlink /usr/ports (for ease of typing)
 
 2) To reflect this, I add
 PORTSDIR=/srv/FreeBSD/ports
 to /etc/make.conf
 
 I believe it's a legal setup according to ports(7).
 
 Here's what I've done.
 
 isrv# cd /srv/FreeBSD/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin
 isrv# make -V .OBJDIR
 /usr/obj/srv/FreeBSD/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin
 
 See the .OBJDIR above?
 
 Now I comment out the PORTSDIR=blablabla from /etc/make.conf.
 And look what happens...
 
 isrv# mkdir /usr/ports
 isrv# mount -t null /srv/FreeBSD/ports /usr/ports
 isrv# cd /usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin
 isrv# make -V .OBJDIR
 /usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin
 
 See what happens to .OBJDIR?
 
 I conclude this what triggers the installation failure. As most people (I
 believe) have ports in /usr/ports,
 the bug like this never happens.
 
 But, I've no idea (yet) where this magic logic happens.
 
 Hope this helps...