[MacPorts] #62994: various ports fail to install on Leopard due to gnulib issue: /confdir-14B---: No space left on device

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#62994: various ports fail to install on Leopard due to gnulib issue: /confdir-
14B---: No space left on device
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  Reporter:  kencu                                 |      Owner:  mascguy
      Type:  defect                                |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal                                |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports                                 |    Version:
Resolution:                                        |   Keywords:  leopard
      Port:  m4 bison findutils coreutils gettext  |
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Comment (by kencu):

 so that directory shouldn't have even been created -- which leads me to
 ponder that it might be left behind / left over from some previous attempt
 to build this.

 can you {{{sudo port clean coreutils}}}

 then go into the directory and make sure eveything is gone:
 {{{
 cd `port dir coreutils`
 ls
 }}}

 and if you still see a work directory in there, remove it using "grm"
 which was noted above to be capable of removing this deep directory.

 now -- catch 22 -- you can't use "grm" unless you have installed coreutils
 already .... so what I did was

 {{{
 sudo rm -rf work
 }}}

 about 10 times and it seemed to finally get rid of the directory...

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/62994#comment:127>
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