-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 November 2004 06:53, Joe Kraft wrote: > I'm trying to install maildrop from ports. It will build and install > fine when doing the default build, but I want to include the userdb > support. When I build with the WITH_USERDB=yes WITH_GDBM=yes knobs, it > seems to build OK but then won't install. It gives this error: > > /bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs /usr/local/bin > /bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs /usr/local/bin > install -o root -g wheel -m 555 makedat/makedat /usr/local/bin/makedat > install: /usr/local/bin/makedat: Too many levels of symbolic links > *** Error code 71
This looks like the install-target creates a recursive link. The original Makefile.in would create two different diectories, one to install the makedat binary and another one where it places a link to the makedat binary. Excerpt from Makefile.in: [...] scriptdir = $(pkgdatadir)/scripts [...] @[EMAIL PROTECTED]: @INSTALL_MAKEDAT_TRUE@ $(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)$(bindir) @INSTALL_MAKEDAT_TRUE@ $(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)$(scriptdir) @INSTALL_MAKEDAT_TRUE@ $(INSTALL_SCRIPT) makedat/makedat $(DESTDIR)$(scriptdir)/makedat [...] @INSTALL_MAKEDAT_TRUE@ $(LN_S) $(scriptdir)/makedat $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/makedat Our patch in the ports files/patch-Makefile.in modifies the variable scriptdir to $(bindir). As results "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)" and "$(DESTDIR)$(scriptdir)" are both set to "/usr/local/bin" and the ln command fails. - -scriptdir = $(pkgdatadir)/scripts +scriptdir = $(bindir) Because link and link-target are the same, I would comment out the respective line in Makefile.in and try again. Maybe there are some more symbolic links, which are targeted by this issue. Cheers, ch - -- Christian Hiris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | OpenPGP KeyID 0x3BCA53BE OpenPGP-Key at hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net and http://pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBjx3709WjGjvKU74RAjGFAJsHEk9bLFYEDhDGiKbz1si8dpVm7ACbBKwt 9CC8as6RX2t9w+LELMWIElM= =o+0l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
