Portmaster error

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Mon Dec 18 21:03:36 UTC 2017


On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com>
wrote:

> --On September 27, 2017 at 10:41:48 AM -0500 Adam Vande More <
> amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm running a 10.3-RELEASE instance. I ran portmaster -ad in screen
>> yesterday to get all the ports up to date. Today I ran it again, to make
>> sure everything was updated.
>>
>> When I did, I got this error:
>>
>> portmaster -ad
>> ===>>> Gathering distinfo list for installed ports
>>
>> ===>>> Starting check of installed ports for available updates
>> make: "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk" line 1462: Cannot open
>> /usr/ports/Mk/Uses/execinfo.mk
>> make: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
>> ===>>> All ports are up to date
>>
>> Sure enough, execinfo.mk is missing.
>>
>> I ran portsnap fetch and update to see if that would fix it. It did not.
>>
>> I didn't find anything about this on the web or in /usr/ports/UDPATING.
>> Is this something new? Is there something I can do to fix it other than
>> wait?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> A portsnap extract might workaround it.
>>
>
> I did that, but it did not resolve the problem. execinfo.mk is still
> missing.


Delete your entire ports tree and try again.  execinfo.mk is supposed to be
missing, you have something else that is not right.

-- 
Adam


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