Updating Ports Index

[Rishi Chopra]

I installed perl, so I'm no longer getting the 'perl: not found' message 
(any reason why perl isn't installed when installing the ports tree??)

The problem now is that the 'make index' command seems to take forever:

idfubar# make index
Generating INDEX-5 - please wait..

And then there's no additional output.  Is the server working on the 
request, or has the request hung?

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Rishi Chopra
>Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 5:23 PM
>To: questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Updating Ports Index
>
>For some reason, I can't seem to update the index for the ports database:
>
>idfubar# cd /usr/ports
>idfubar# make index
>Generating INDEX-5 - please wait..perl: not found
>perl: not found
>Done.
>
>I also tried attempting my first 'portsdb -Uu' after a successful CVSUp, 
>but am running into some problems:
>
>idfubar# portsdb -Uu
>Updating the ports index ... perl: not found
>/usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass2:70:in `write': Broken pipe 
>(Errno::EPIPE)
>       from /usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass2:70:in `puts'
>       from /usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass2:70
>failed to generate INDEX!
>portsdb: index generation error
>
>
>Can anyone explain why I might be getting these errors?  My installation 
>was a minimal install, do I need to install something else for the 'make 
>index' command to work properly?
>
>-R
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