[PC-BSD Pbi-dev] PBI build failed due to an incomplete port tree in pbi builder 2.5 ?

[Sam Lin]

Hi,

I was trying to build a pbi for math/R (a statistics environment and
language) using PBI Builder 2.5 on PC-BSD 8.1, whereas it was not
successful and I found something weird. The last few line of my
build.log shows that:

======== build.log from here  ===========

ELF ldconfig path: /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/local/lib
a.out ldconfig path: /usr/lib/aout /usr/lib/compat/aout
cd: can't cd to /usr/ports/math/R
make: don't know how to make clean. Stop
make: don't know how to make install. Stop
make: don't know how to make install. Stop
ERROR: 2.1 Build failed of math/R!!!

============ to here ===============

It appears that something is wrong with the directory or the path to
the ports, so I checked out my /pbi-build/ports/ and alas!

======== /pbi-build/ports/ from here =======

total 884
-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel      19  7月 15  1997 .cvsignore
-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel   56860  6月  7 05:17 CHANGES
-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel    1498  1月  1  2010 COPYRIGHT
-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel    2416  7月  5 19:40 GIDs
-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel    4631  2月  8 00:51 KNOBS
-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel   34278  8月  4 21:52 LEGAL
-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel  336624  8月  4 09:15 MOVED
-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel    6018 12月 19  2009 Makefile
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel    1536  8月  6 11:50 Mk
-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel    1298  5月 23  2006 README
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel     512  8月  6 11:50 Templates
drwxr-xr-x    4 root  wheel     512  8月  6 11:50 Tools
-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel   12161  7月  5 19:40 UIDs
-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel  339022  8月  2 04:08 UPDATING
drwxr-xr-x   31 root  wheel    1024  8月  6 11:50 accessibility
drwxr-xr-x   12 root  wheel     512  8月  6 11:50 arabic
drwxr-xr-x  197 root  wheel    4096  8月  6 11:50 archivers
drwxr-xr-x  117 root  wheel    2560  8月  6 11:50 astro
drwxr-xr-x  872 root  wheel   17920  8月  6 11:51 audio
drwxr-xr-x   68 root  wheel    1536  8月  6 11:51 benchmarks
drwxr-xr-x  100 root  wheel    2048  8月  6 11:51 biology
drwxr-xr-x  100 root  wheel    2048  8月  6 11:51 cad
drwxr-xr-x  145 root  wheel    3072  8月  6 11:51 chinese
drwxr-xr-x  167 root  wheel    3584  8月  6 11:51 comms
drwxr-xr-x  143 root  wheel    3584  8月  6 11:51 converters
drwxr-xr-x   36 root  wheel    1024  8月  6 11:51 databases

============ to here ================

That's all?! Apparently for some reason portsnap invoked by
buildpbi.sh did not build up a complete port tree in my /pbi-build,
which results in the builder not being able to locate
/usr/ports/math/R. But I wonder why the port tree is incomplete...

As a workaround (I thought it would be), I added the following lines
in preportmake.sh:

========= preportmake.sh from here =========

# math/R requires gmake and perl to build

pkg_add -r gmake
pkg_add-r perl

# to re-construct a whole new (and complete) port tree

portsnap -p ${PROGDIR}/ports fetch extract update

================ to here ================

But still got the same result with the same log.

How do I sort this glitch out?


Thank you
Sam