No dialogue for `make config` after upgrade to 11.0 [SOLVED]

[Odhiambo Washington]

On 11 January 2017 at 17:03, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have upgraded a system from 9.3 -> 10.3 -> 11.0 using source upgrade.
>
>
> root at waridi:/usr/ports/mail/dovecot2 # uname -msr
> *FreeBSD 11.0-STABLE amd64*
>
> I seem to be having some serious problems with it when it comes to
> building applications.
>
> 1. When (for instance) I
>     cd /usr/ports/www/apache24 && make config
>     *The usual dialogue to select the options I want doesn't come up*.
>
> 2. Some applications that I used to compile manually don't want to let me
> go past `configure`. I get this error of:
>     *....*
> *    checking type of off_t... unknown*
> *    configure: error: Unsupported off_t type*
>
> 3. Ports don't want to obey the DESTDIR macro:
>
> root at waridi:/usr/ports/mail/dovecot2 # make DESTDIR=/opt/dovecot2.2
> ===>  Creating some important subdirectories
> ===> /tmp subdirectory has been successfully created
> ===> /dev subdirectory has been successfully created
> ===>  Starting chrooted make in /opt/dovecot2.2...
> chroot: /bin/sh: No such file or directory
> ===>  Chrooted make in /opt/dovecot2.2 failed
> ===>  Cleaning up...
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.
> make: stopped in /usr/ports/mail/dovecot2
>
>
> I am wondering what I could be missing which has led to these..
>

These major version upgrades aren't interesting!

I think fresh installs should be a lot easier now that I have experienced
this!

The solution is delete all ports, then install them afresh all at ago, not
just one by one :-(.


>


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