make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue

[Jeff Bakst]

freebsd# portsdb -Uu
Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..===> 
japanese/gd1 failed:
"Makefile", line 17: Could not find 
/usr/ports/japanese/gd1/../../graphics/gd1/Makefile
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
*** Error code 1
1 error
 
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Before reporting this error, verify that you are running a supported
version of FreeBSD (see http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/) and that you
have a complete and up-to-date ports collection.  If so, then report
the failure to ports at FreeBSD.org together with relevant details of
your ports configuration (including FreeBSD version, environment and
/etc/make.conf settings).
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*** Error code 1
 
Stop in /usr/ports.
*** Error code 1
 
Stop in /usr/ports.
failed to generate INDEX!
portsdb: index generation error


freebsd#
freebsd# uname -a
FreeBSD freebsd.msoftworks.com 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: 
Mon Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004     
root at wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
freebsd#


freebsd# cat /etc/make.conf
# -- use.perl generated deltas -- #
# Created: Fri Apr  9 16:45:29 2004
# Setting to use base perl from ports:
PERL_VER=5.6.1
PERL_VERSION=5.6.1
PERL_ARCH=mach
NOPERL=yo
NO_PERL=yo
NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo
WITH_FAM=yes
WITH_LAME=yes
freebsd#