RE: can't compile anymore / Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")

["Thomas Feddersen" <Thomas.Feddersen%t-online.de@localhost>]

Roland
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roland Illig [mailto:rillig%NetBSD.org@localhost] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:04 PM
> To: Thomas Feddersen
> Cc: pkgsrc-users%netbsd.org@localhost
> Subject: Re: can't compile anymore / Syntax error: word 
> unexpected (expecting ")")
> 
>  
> The *.out file you sent me contains a line that starts with
> 
>  > *** Error
> 
> The error message came from the shell, so the cause is usually the 
> command directly above that line. In your case, this is:
> 
>  > case /usr/pkg in ) buildlink_dir="..." ;;
> 
> This information is useful to see which code is executed. So I did a 
> "grep -wr buildlink_dir $pkgsrcdir/mk", 

Got it. Just for my education: what lets you know, that "buildlink_dir" is
the problem, not any other part of the remainder of the line?

<snip>

Okay

> The next question is: Why is that variable empty?
> 
> "make help topic=X11BASE" does not return anything useful in 
> this case. "grep -wrl X11BASE $pkgsrcdir/doc/guide" returns 
> some matches, so let's 
> look them up.

How am I supposed to read XML-Documents? 

<snip>

> bsd.prefs.mk contains some 
> default values for variables that are _not_ user-settable. The 
> definition depends on the X11_TYPE variable. Please run "make 
> show-vars 
> VARNAMES='X11_TYPE X11_BASE'" to show the values of these variables.

Here you are:
Bremen: {11} make show-vars VARNAMES='X11_TYPE X11_BASE'
XFree86

Bremen: {12}

As a matter of fact, variable X11_BASE is empty or undefined.

I worked around the problem with 
Bremen: {43} setenv X11_BASE X11R6
Bremen: {44} env
USER=fed
<snip>
SU_FROM=fed
X11BASE=X11R6

Then the package compiled and installed okay.

But I certainly would like to know, how to set / restore the missing
variable.

I recall, last thing I tried before this problem, I wanted to use xdiskusage
(http://xdiskusage.sourceforge.net/) but had to install the fltk-library
(http://www.fltk.org/) first. That install failed, because my XF86-files
were out of date and I don't know how to update - XF86 is a set, not a
package. Maybe the variable X11_BASE got lost / deleted during that
disrupted installation.

Regards
Thomas