tech-pkg: Re: make: RE substitution error: Invalid preceding regular expression

Subject: Re: make: RE substitution error: Invalid preceding regular expression
To: Marc Recht <recht@netbsd.org>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/18/2003 16:23:19

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Marc Recht wrote:

> >> ===> Required package py23-xml-*: NOT found
> >> ===> Verifying reinstall for ../../textproc/pyxml
> >> bmake: RE substitution error: Invalid preceding regular expression
> [...]
>
> I think your bmake doesn't like this: [from extension.mk]
> PYTHON_VERSION_REQD?= ${PKGNAME_REQD:C/^\'?py([^-]*)-.*/\1/}
>
> You could try changing the: \'? to \' since (AFAIK) all pkgnames are quoted
> now.
>
> BTW, what version of bmake is it ?

This was with old bmake-3.1.17. But I can't reproduce this problem today.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/