make suddenly failing for all ports

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jtl

I've been updating some ports and without warning (that I could see), make has suddenly started failing. If I cd into any port directory e.g. /usr/ports/databases/py-sqlite3 and try a make, make config, make deinstall or make reinstall I get the following error:

Code: 
# make deinstall
4 open conditionals:
	     at line 5850 (skipped)
	    at line 5848 (skipped)
	    at line 1610 (evaluated to false)
	   at line 1170 (evaluated to true)
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
#

This now happens with every port I've tried. I've also been updating ports with portmanager, but now that too is suddenly giving the following errors:

Code: 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
portmanager 0.4.1_9: Collecting installed port data 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
4 open conditionals:
	    at line 5850 (evaluated to false)
	   at line 5848 (evaluated to true)
	  at line 1610 (evaluated to true)
	 at line 1170 (evaluated to true)
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
MGdbAdd error: attempt to place null data into record halted
Assertion failed: (0), function MGdbAdd, file MGdbAdd.c, line 78.
Abort (core dumped)
#

I've done a portsnap fetch and portsnap upgrade, also a pkgd
 
/etc/make.conf contains:

Code: 
# added by use.perl 2009-09-26 23:52:05
PERL_VERSION=5.10.1

and which make reports:

Code: 
/usr/bin/make

I tried commenting out PERL_VERSION=5.10.1 in /etc/make.conf, but it made no difference.
 
Well, if it happens for any and all ports, check contents of your /usr/ports/Mk, and/or try updating your ports tree (you could just run # portsnap extract if you use it to make sure your ports tree is ok).
 
I checked the contents of /usr/ports/Mk and noticed that bsd.ports.mk had been moved to bsd.ports.mk.orig, and a new bsd.ports.mk was present. I restored the old bsd.ports.mk and now make is working again. I'm pretty sure this change occurred when I did a "portmanager -u mercurial -l", that failed to complete. I don't remember why it failed but I think it was due to a problem with openoffice.org-3. Anyway, it looks like I'm back in business. Thank you!

Btw - is there someway to restore the contents of the /usr/ports/Mk directory? That is, does /usr/ports/Mk get rebuilt when doing a portsnap upgrade, or perhaps only with a portsnap extract? I'd like to find a way to ensure that the contents of my /usr/ports/Mk directory is correct and consistent.
 
jtl said:
Btw - is there someway to restore the contents of the /usr/ports/Mk directory? That is, does /usr/ports/Mk get rebuilt when doing a portsnap upgrade, or perhaps only with a portsnap extract? I'd like to find a way to ensure that the contents of my /usr/ports/Mk directory is correct and consistent.
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It gets updated in the same way as the rest of the ports tree.
 
Can I force an update of a file such as /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk simply by renaming it or deleting it, and then doing a portsnap fetch and portsnap update? I'd like to think so, but I suspect that's not sufficient because (from what I can tell) bsd.port.mk can be modified by portmanager, so it probably reflects the state of my installed ports in some way.
 
# cd /usr/ports && portsnap extract Mk/bsd.port.mk

BTW: no ports management tool should touch /usr/ports/Mk
 
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