error building desktop-file-utils

Keith Beattie ksbeattie at gmail.com
Fri Nov 17 12:27:07 PST 2006


Hello all,

I'm getting a failure when portupgrading desktop-file-utils from 0.11 to
0.12.  What appear to be the relevant bits from the building:

....
Making all in misc
WARNING: Warnings can be ignored. :-)
if test "emacs" != no; then  set x;  list='desktop-entry-mode.el'; for p in
$list; do  if test -f "$p"; then d=; else d="./"; fi;  set x "$@" "$d$p";
shift;  done;  shift;  EMACS="emacs" /bin/sh ../elisp-comp "$@" || exit 1;
else : ; fi
While compiling toplevel forms in file
/usr/ports/devel/desktop-file-utils/work/desktop-file-utils-0.12
/misc/elc.65641/desktop-entry-mode.el:
  !! Wrong type argument ((listp -128904428))
Done
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/desktop-file-utils/work/desktop-file-utils-0.12
/misc.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/desktop-file-utils/work/desktop-file-utils-0.12.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/desktop-file-utils/work/desktop-file-utils-0.12.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/desktop-file-utils.
** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa
/tmp/portupgrade.56352.106 env PORT_UPGRADE=yes make
** Fix the problem and try again.
....

$ uname -v
FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p3 #3: Thu Jun 30 23:18:25 PDT 2005
root at foo.foo.foo:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FOO


(I'm also getting errors during buildworld to upgrade to 5.5, but that'll
have to wait for another post...)

TIA,
ksb


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