cricket-1.0.5_4

Sam Lawrance boris at brooknet.com.au
Sat Jun 16 07:23:07 UTC 2007


On 16/06/2007, at 5:19 PM, Roar Pettersen wrote:

> Hello !
>
>>>> I'm trying to compile Cricket, but I get this error message :
>>>> server:/usr/ports/net-mgmt/cricket# make
>>>> ===>  cricket-1.0.5_4 uses a UID registered to another port.
>>>> *** Error code 1
>>>> Can anybody look into this problem ?
>>> Did you remove the IGNORE line from the Makefile?  It looks like  
>>> you may
>>> have.  The IGNORE line explicitly states what the problem is; you
>>> shouldn't be able to build the port if IGNORE is set to non-null.
>>> IGNORE=         uses a UID registered to another port
>>
>> The IGNORE line is why the build stopped in the first place  
>> (notice that the messages are the same).
>
>
> The solution was to comment out this line like this :
>
> $FreeBSD: ports/net-mgmt/cricket/Makefile,v 1.28 2007/04/11  
> 16:20:53 mux Exp $
>
> #IGNORE=         uses a UID registered to another port
>
> Now I was able to compile and install cricket.

Keep in mind it's not a solution, just a workaround (because the  
problem still exists).

BTW, you shouldn't really edit the port makefile like that - as long  
as you are aware of the issues, you can build a port with NO_IGNORE set.



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