ports/148234: pkg_install fails for some octave-forge-* ports

Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen at missouri.edu
Wed Jun 30 06:00:16 UTC 2010


The following reply was made to PR ports/148234; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen at missouri.edu>
To: Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com>
Cc: "FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org" <FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: ports/148234: pkg_install fails for some octave-forge-* ports
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:52:19 -0500

 Mark Linimon wrote:
 > Which port or ports does this patch apply to?
 >
 > mcl
 
 OK, my mistake - to reproduce this error do the following:
 
 cd /usr/ports/math/octave-forge-specfun
 make install package
 pkg_delete gmake-3.81_4 (or whatever version you have installed)
 pkg_add octave-forge-specfun-1.0.9.tbz
 
 In other words, pkg_add requires the presence of gmake for this port to 
 be installed as a package.



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