math/mpft will not build

[Paul Schmehl]

--On December 18, 2018 at 7:15:42 PM -0600 Paul Schmehl 
<pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com> wrote:

> --On December 19, 2018 at 3:58:27 AM +0300 Yuri Pankov
> <yuripv at yuripv.net> wrote:
>
>> Paul Schmehl wrote:
>>> Can someone explain what this line does? It's keeping math/mpfr from
>>> building, and that causes tons of other ports to fail.
>>>
>>> /usr/bin/jot -s " " -w patch%02d ${PATCHLEVEL} 1 ${PATCHLEVEL}
>>>
>>> I can't even find PATCHLEVEL in the Porters Handbook, and it's not
>>> defined in the port Makefile.
>>
>> PATCHLEVEL is defined just above the line with jot, it looks like this
>> for me:
>>
>> PATCHLEVEL=     13
>> PATCHFILES!=    /usr/bin/jot -s " " -w patch%02d ${PATCHLEVEL} 1
>> ${PATCHLEVEL}
>>
>> So it's simply a local variable, and the whole construct is there just
>> to make it easier to define the list of patches, i.e. when you run it
>> from shell, it outputs the following:
>>
>> $ jot -s " " -w patch%02d 13 1 13
>> patch01 patch02 patch03 patch04 patch05 patch06 patch07 patch08 patch09
>> patch10 patch11 patch12 patch13
>>
>> And I'm wondering how exactly it's failing the build for you?
>>
>>
> This is the error:
>
> ===>  Applying distribution patches for mpfr-4.0.1_2
> No such line 4470 in input file, ignoring
> 3 out of 4 hunks failed--saving rejects to doc/mpfr.info.rej
> *** Error code 1
>
> The .rej file is attached.
>

I didn't realize the mailing list doesn't allow attachments. The file may 
be viewed here:
<https://www.stovebolt.com/mpfr.info.rej>

Paul Schmehl, Retired
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