Re: Build failure for mail/procmail

[Paul Goyette <paul%vps1.whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Paul Goyette wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Paul Goyette wrote:
>
> > Having gotten past my earlier issues with cmake, I now turn to procmail!
> >
> > A quick check in the Makefile shows that it includes MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=no yet 
> > the error message would imply that it is still doing a parallel make:
> >
> > ...
> > Determining the maximum number of 16 byte arguments execv() takes
> > Whoeaaa!  This actually can't happen.
> > You have a look and see if you detect anything uncanny:
> > *******************************************************
> > A failure has been detected in another branch of the parallel make
> > *******************************************************
> > I suggest you take a look at the definition of LDFLAGS*
> > in the Makefile before you try make again.
> > *** [../autoconf.h] Error code 1
> > ...
> >
> > The entire log file is attached to this Email...
>
>
> I've rerun this build with PKG_DEBUG_LEVEL=2 and I still cannot figure out 
> why it is running make with -j2
>
> The entire log is attached.  Hopefully someone can figure out why the 
> MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=no (from procmail's Makefile) isn't working?


Problem solved!   :)

It seems that /etc/mk.conf is read and processed _after_ the package's 
Makefile.  As a result, the MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=yes in my /etc/mk.conf file 
overrides the MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=no in the package's Makefile.

Removing the line from /etc/mk.conf allows the build to proceed!



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