UpdatingPorts

[Peter Koellner]

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> Are you running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard? If so, this may be the well-known but 
> not yet fully-understood problem that Guido and I have been talking about on 
> the list today. If so, a workaround is to simply try the upgrade again and it 
> should work.

i get this relatively often, too. I think what happens is that some
make prerequisite is missing, but not added to the autoconf
configuration.
For example:

Say, you do something like

$(RM) -f foo.bar

in your makefile and assume that every sane environment has $(RM)
defined as rm or something else.

Then, RM is for some reason undefined - what command will make see?

-f foo.bar

So you have to look for undefined variables in the makefiles. Most of
the time they should be more or less easy to find for the rest of the
parametera following...


-- 
peter koellner <peter at asgalon.net>