Subject: Package build freezing up?
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@larsshack.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/09/2002 21:02:29
I was trying to build the sawfish window manager (pkgsrc/wm/sawfish), but
I've run into a problem I need some help diagnosing.

The build process only gets this far:

  $ make
  ===> Validating dependencies for sawfish-1.0.1

And there it sits, apparently indefinately.  If I run make with '-dm'
(which prints debugging information about making targets), it appears to
be stuck in the following endless loop:

  Examining uptodate-pkgtools...non-existent...non-existent and no
  sources...out-of-date.
  update time to now: 19:00:00 Dec 31, 1969
  Examining install-depends...non-existent...modified before
  source...out-of-date.
  Examining check-depends...non-existent...non-existent and no
  sources...out-of-date.
  Examining uptodate-pkgtools...non-existent...non-existent and no
  sources...out-of-date.
  update time to now: 19:00:00 Dec 31, 1969
  Examining install-depends...non-existent...modified before
  source...out-of-date.
  Examining check-depends...non-existent...non-existent and no
  sources...out-of-date.
  Examining uptodate-pkgtools...non-existent...non-existent and no
  sources...out-of-date.
  update time to now: 19:00:00 Dec 31, 1969
  Examining install-depends...non-existent...modified before
  source...out-of-date.
  Examining check-depends...non-existent...non-existent and no
  sources...out-of-date.

Any thoughts?  Other packages are building without a problem, but I ran
into similar symptoms trying to run 'make readme' in pkgsrc/net.

-- Lars

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Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@larsshack.org>