math/mpft will not build

[Paul Schmehl]

--On December 19, 2018 at 4:40:22 AM +0300 Yuri Pankov <yuripv at yuripv.net> 
wrote:

> Paul Schmehl 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.
>
> Not seeing this.  Looking at the Makefile log, I see the dependency on
> gpatch dropped with 10.x EOL -- I guess you aren't running 10.x?

I just upgraded the server today from 10.4 to 11.0. (The 11.2 fetch kept 
failing.)

Now I'm trying to rebuild all the ports so I can complete the install.

>
> And if you aren't, try to exclude possible problems by cleaning up the
> patchfiles, i.e. do a `make clean; make distclean`.  If that doesn't
> help, paste the full output of `make clean; make patch`.
>

I just tried this, and the build still failed in the same place.

Paul Schmehl, Retired
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