portupgrade eats my swap space

P.U.Kruppa root at pukruppa.de
Tue Jan 17 23:05:17 PST 2006


On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 07:51:12AM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 07:17:32AM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You are setting an illegal variable in your make.conf or environment
>>>>>>> that is causing the port makefile to recurse.  Probably USE_GCC or
>>>>>>> some other USE_*.
>>>>>> That could be a hint. I can find legal options in
>>>>>> /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk
>>>>>> can I ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Sort of..but it also lists options that are only legal within specific
>>>>> port makefiles (like USE_*).
>>>>>
>>>>> Post your make.conf and I'll probably be able to tell you what's wrong.
>>>> This is it:
>>>> 	----------------------------------------
>>>> X_WINDOW_SYSTEM= xorg
>>>>
>>>> CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=yes
>>>> NO_LPR=yes
>>>>
>>>> # WITH_FAM= yes
>>>> USE_FAM=yes
>>>
>>> As I said, USE_* are illegal here and cause recursion.
>>>
>>> Kris
>>>
>> Thanks, I'll ask freebsd-gnome about that.
>
> What's to ask?  They'll tell you the same thing I did.
It seems, they are substituting fam by gamin for gnome 2.14 . 
Obviously I gathered the wrong make.conf settings for that from 
some mail archieve. Since they are nice and patient people, they 
will probably give me the right ones :-)

Uli.

>
> Kris
>



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