Ruby 1.8 - Makefile Error

[Drew Tomlinson]

Drew Tomlinson told a big fish story including the following on 3/4/2004 
11:34 AM:

> I have two machines running 4.9.  On "blacklamb", I have the ports 
> collection installed and am running Samba 2.2.8a .  On blacksheep, I 
> mount blacklamb's /usr/ports at blacksheep's /usr/ports using smbfs.  
> This system has worked fine for over 2 years.
>
> However on blacksheep, I tried to upgrade from ruby 1.6 to ruby 1.8 
> following the instructions in /usr/ports/UPDATING.  When running 'make 
> install clean', I get the following error:
>
> blacksheep# make install clean
> ===>  Building for ruby-1.8.1_2
> make: cannot open makefile.
> *** Error code 2
>
> Yet if I run the same command on blacklamb, the port builds just 
> fine.  Other ports build OK on blacksheep using this method.  Any 
> ideas on why ruby 1.8 won't build?

I have to take that back.  It seems all ports I attempt to build on 
blacksheep fail in the same manner.  So what is it about mounting via 
smbfs that might cause this problem?  It used to work... :-(

Thanks,

Drew