can't install openssl?

[Lowell Gilbert]

"John Lee" <john at allservers.net> writes:

> can't install openssl?
> 
> - latest ports.tar.gz -
> 
> [root at www root]# cd /usr/ports/security/openssl
> [root at www openssl]# make install
> Makefile error: There is a COMMENTFILE in this port.
> COMMENTFILEs have been deprecated in
> favor of COMMENT variables.
> Please, rectify this.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/security/openssl.
> [root at www openssl]# 

Maybe you need to update the port.

More likely, you need to delete the COMMENTFILE.
[If the COMMENTFILE was on your disk, but was not in the tree the
first time you ran cvsup, then cvsup will leave it alone, on the
assumption that it is a local modification.]