fatal error from /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.linux-apps.mk

[Boris Samorodov]

On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:55:27 -0400 William Bulley wrote:

> On Friday I ran the following:

>   # cd /usr/local/etc/cvsup
>   # csup -L2 ports-supfile
>   # csup -L2 doc-supfile
>   # csup -L2 stable-supfile   (tag=RELENG_7)

> I then rebuilt the world and installed it.  When I rebooted,
> I was very pleasantly surprised to find:

>   % uname -a
>   FreeBSD freebsd 7.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-PRERELEASE #0:
>   Fri Apr 24 16:13:56 EDT 2009 [snip] i386

> I began the process of rebuilding my all ports on Saturday:

>   # pkg_delete -a
>   # \rm -rf /usr/ports/*/work

> Things progressed fine until I started building any ports
> having some dependency on Linux emulation:

>   [this is true for /usr/ports/print/acroread8 and 9
>    astro/google-earth, multimedia/linux-realplayer,
>    www/opera-linuxplugins, etc.]

>   # make install clean
>   "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.linux-apps.mk", line 72: Malformed conditional
>   (${LINUX_DIST_SUFFIX}=="")
>   "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.linux-apps.mk", line 130: Malformed conditional
>   (${LINUX_DIST_SUFFIX} == "-f8")
>   Error expanding embedded variable.

> Here are the relevant settings in the indicated files:

>    /etc/fstab
>    linprocfs   /compat/linux/proc   linprocfs   rw          0  0

>    # kldstat
>    Id Refs Address    Size     Name
>    1   12 0xc0400000 48d204   kernel
>    2    1 0xc088e000 6a45c    acpi.ko
>    3    1 0xc5403000 7000     linprocfs.ko
>    4    1 0xc540f000 22000    linux.ko

>    /etc/rc.conf
>    linux_enable="YES"

>    /etc/make.conf
>    OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=f9
>    OVERRIDE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS=f9

The last variable may take a value of "f8" only. For more
information you may take a look at /usr/ports/UPDATING,
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.linux-apps.mk.

>    /etc/sysctl.conf
>    compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16

> I don't know what to do to fix this problem.  I don't
> know whether I should submit a pr or try to determine
> what is going on myself.  Not sure I would succeed at
> the latter.  Please advise.  If more information or
> detail is required, let me know.

> The next thing I will try is changing /etc/make.conf
> to override "f8" instead of "f9"

As for OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT it can be assigned a value "f9".


WBR
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