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

[Michael O. Boev]

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...