Unable to make new ports after ports tree update

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oshaggy

I am running an older FreeBSD 5.5 fileserver that I recently updated the ports tree on. Now when I attempt to compile a port from /usr/ports I am getting this error message:

Code: 
X11BASE is now deprecated.  Unset X11BASE in make.conf and try again.
*** Error code 1

Stop.

I can't find much information about this error on this website or other sites on the web, however, I did try WITHOUT_X11=yes and X11BASE='' in my /etc/make.conf to no avail.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

This was what was already in my /etc/make.conf

Code: 
# added by use.perl 2005-09-26 05:09:03
PERL_VER=5.8.6
PERL_VERSION=5.8.6

#Added for /usr/ports wanting this now
USE_NONDEFAULT_X11BASE=no

Here is my ports-supfile:

Code: 
*default host=cvsup8.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/var/db
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=.
*default delete use-rel-suffix
ports-all

Thank you for your assistance.
 
Thanks jb_fvwm2,

From reading /usr/ports/UPDATING, this seems to be the relevant section mentioning X11BASE:

Code: 
20061014:
  AFFECTS: all GTK+2 and GNOME users
  AUTHOR: gnome@FreeBSD.org

  GNOME has been updated to 2.16.  All GTK+2 and GNOME components have been
  moved from X11BASE (/usr/X11R6) to LOCALBASE (/usr/local).  To upgrade
  your GNOME desktop or/and other applications you will need to use either
  sysutils/portupgrade or sysutils/portmaster.  To use portmaster, make
  sure you have least 1.9 version to have the upgrade succeed.

  Portupgrade users:
        pkgdb -Ff
        portupgrade -rf pkg-config\*

I tried this however I dont have pkg-config installed. I do have pkgconfig-0.17.2. Upgrading that package shows the name change but has to build the new package and fails with the same error.

Code: 
** Detected a package name change: pkgconfig (devel/pkg-config) -> 'pkg-config' (devel/pkg-config)
--->  Upgrading 'pkgconfig-0.17.2' to 'pkg-config-0.23_1' (devel/pkg-config)
--->  Building '/usr/ports/devel/pkg-config'
X11BASE is now deprecated.  Unset X11BASE in make.conf and try again.
*** Error code 1

Stop.

If this is the right upgrade path, I'm not sure what I can do from this point. Any suggestions?
 
Your installed packages are so old it's probably best to just remove them all and start over.
 
30 seconds with Google searching for "unset X11BASE make.conf" brings up lots of posts from 2007, when this change was made. ;)

Add the following to your /etc/make.conf:
Code: 
X11BASE=${LOCALBASE}

Then re-install all your ports.

Might be faster if you pkg_delete everything first, remove /usr/X11, then re-install all your ports.

Consider upgrading your OS as well. ;) 5.5 is beyond the grave.
 
Thank you oshaggy, that worked for me. Using FreeBSD 6.1

I just added that (X11BASE=${LOCALBASE}) line in /etc/make.conf
So it looks like this:
Code: 
# added by use.perl 2006-06-04 20:55:21
PERL_VER=5.8.8
PERL_VERSION=5.8.8
X11BASE=${LOCALBASE}

And then run these two lines;
Code: 
pkgdb -Ff
portupgrade -rf pkg-config \*
 
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