Help, several but not all ports make failing with no errors

[Jeffrey Williams]

Thank you, Yuri

that solved it, make clean in the effected port also solved the problem 
on those machines without portupgrade.

Silly of me, I should of realized that, although for the machines that I 
used portupgrade on, doesn't it run "make clean" as a matter of course 
when upgrading ports?

Thanks,
Jeff

Yuri Pankov wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:47:14AM -0700, Jeffrey Williams wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I am having a weird problem, since upgrading several servers to the new 
>> Xorg.  These servers do not have full X installed on them, but do have apps 
>> installed that depend on some X libraries.
>>
>> When trying to install some ports, most recently subversion, when I type 
>> "make" in the port directory, I get returned immediately to the prompt, 
>> with no messages, and now errors, nothing copied or installed.
>>
>> This problem has occurred intermittently with out a lot of consistency.  
>> For instance php5 worked fine on one server but not on another, most of the 
>> servers are running in jails, at the moment subversion is my main problem.
>>
>> All servers were upgrade from 6.2p0 to p6 using cvsup and make buildworld, 
>> on some the installed ports were upgraded using the portupgrade technique 
>> form UPDATING, on others all pre-existing ports were deinstalled, mergebase 
>> was run, then needed ports were reinstalled.  This problem seems to 
>> manifest equally regardless of which technique was used.
>>
>> This problem does not occur with every port, for instance on the two 
>> servers currently causing me problems, visitors and wget installed fine, 
>> but subversion exhibits the symptoms described above, problem seems to 
>> occur more often on the jailed servers than on the regular, I also tried 
>> installing to the jailed servers from the jail host server using the 
>> DESTDIR flag, but had the same symptom.
>>
>> Really quick help on this would be appreciated, this is holding up some 
>> critical projects.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jeff
> 
> The only reason that I can think of - you haven't cleaned work/
> directories after ports installation, and now make is seeing cookie
> files - work/.build_done, work/.install_done - and is doing nothing as
> it should. Anyway, try running `portsclean -C' and sorry if reason lies
> somewhere deeper.
> 
> 
> HTH,
> Yuri