Make index || portsdb -uU fails after cvsup

[Roman Neuhauser]

# drosih at rpi.edu / 2004-05-09 19:33:23 -0400:
> If I:
>      cd /usr/ports/arabic
>      make describe
> 
> then it works perfectly fine.  However, that is not what the above
> error message complains about.  The error says:
> 
>     don't know how to make _arabic.describe.
>                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> and "_arabic.describe" *is* the target which is bsd.ports.subdir.mk
> is trying to make.  And it is trying to make that in /usr/ports, not
> in /usr/ports/arabic, because there is no 'cd' in the section which
> does the   '@${MAKE} -B ${i:S/^/_/:S/$/.describe/} ...'
> 
> In fact, if I put a debugging printf in that target, it is:
> 
>    making _accessibility.describe in /usr/obj/usr/ports
> 
> I don't see how that can possibly work for anyone.

    Kris has already told you to get rid of /usr/obj/usr/ports

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