Re: cannot build packages using pkgsrc anymore

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 02:24:23 +0300, Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost> 
wrote:

> > Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
>  >>>   ident lang/perl5/buildlink3.mk
>  >> lang/perl5/buildlink3.mk:
>  >>      $NetBSD: buildlink3.mk,v 1.30 2006/03/14 01:14:29 jlam Exp $
> 
> > On my system with a current version of pkgsrc, I have:
> 
> > # ident buildlink3.mk
> > buildlink3.mk:
> >       $NetBSD: buildlink3.mk,v 1.31 2006/04/06 06:22:13 reed Exp $
> 
> > Are you sure that you updated all of pkgsrc when you last ran "cvs update"?
> When I answered to Johnny Lam I've upgraded mk/ directory
> (or one file bsd.buildlink3.mk, I didn't remember exactly).
> I didn't update lang/ and other directories.
> After updating files from lang/perl5 everything works fine.
> I'll look at section 11 of pkgsrc docs.
> Thanks a lot for your help.
> 
Unless you really know what you're doing, updating pieces of pkgsrc is a
bad idea -- there are often changes that affect many parts of the build
system.

                --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb