On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 13:05:22 -0400, "Steven M. Bellovin"
<smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:

Here's the output of make show-vars VARNAMES="PKG_SYSCONFDIR
CONFIGURE_ARGS"

--sysconfdir= --prefix=/usr/pkg --host=i386--netbsdelf
--mandir=/usr/pkg/man

Here's work.log:

[*] /pkg_comp/obj/pkgsrc/textproc/xmlcatmgr/default/.tools/bin/true
<.> true
[*] /pkg_comp/obj/pkgsrc/textproc/xmlcatmgr/default/.tools/bin/true
<.> true
[*] /pkg_comp/obj/pkgsrc/textproc/xmlcatmgr/default/.tools/bin/true
<.> true
[*] /pkg_comp/obj/pkgsrc/textproc/xmlcatmgr/default/.tools/bin/true
<.> true
[*] /pkg_comp/obj/pkgsrc/textproc/xmlcatmgr/default/.tools/bin/mkdir -p .
<.> /bin/mkdir -p -p .

There is no config.log.  Here's the text leading up to the error:

===> Checking for vulnerabilities in libxml2-2.6.23nb1
=> Checksum SHA1 OK for libxml2-2.6.23.tar.bz2.
=> Checksum RMD160 OK for libxml2-2.6.23.tar.bz2.
===> Extracting for libxml2-2.6.23nb1
===> Required package xmlcatmgr>=2.0beta1: NOT found
===> Verifying package for ../../textproc/xmlcatmgr
===> Checking for vulnerabilities in xmlcatmgr-2.2nb1
=> Checksum SHA1 OK for xmlcatmgr-2.2.tar.gz.
=> Checksum RMD160 OK for xmlcatmgr-2.2.tar.gz.
===> Extracting for xmlcatmgr-2.2nb1
===> Patching for xmlcatmgr-2.2nb1
===> Overriding tools for xmlcatmgr-2.2nb1
===> Creating toolchain wrappers for xmlcatmgr-2.2nb1
===> Configuring for xmlcatmgr-2.2nb1
configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --sysconfdir: 
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/textproc/xmlcatmgr
===> 
===> There was an error during the ``configure'' phase.
===> Please investigate the following for more information:
===>      * config.log
===>      * /pkg_comp/obj/pkgsrc/textproc/xmlcatmgr/default/.work.log
===> 
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/textproc/xmlcatmgr
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/textproc/libxml2
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/textproc/libxml2
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/x11/xscreensaver
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/x11/xscreensaver
G_SYSCONFDIR CONFIGURE_ARGS"                                        

 --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb