Building exim 4.66 on my FreeBSD 4.9 box didn't work;
=> Attempting to fetch from http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/exim/exim/exim4/. fetch: http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/exim/exim/exim4/FAQ.txt.bz2: size of remote file is not known Receiving FAQ.txt.bz2: 25729 bytes 25729 bytes transferred in 0.7 seconds (38.10 kBps) ===> Extracting for exim-4.66 => MD5 Checksum OK for exim/exim-4.66.tar.bz2. ===> exim-4.66 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8 - found ===> exim-4.66 depends on file: /usr/local/sbin/pkg_info - found bzcat: /usr/ports/distfiles/exim/FAQ.txt.bz2 is not a bzip2 file. *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/mail/exim. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade.79576.0 env UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade UPGRADE_PORexim-4.63 UPGRADE_PORT_VER=4.63 make ** Fix the problem and try again. ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed) ! mail/exim (exim-4.63) (unknown build error) ---> Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed Simply recompressing FAQ.txt.bz2 (it was a plain text file as downloaded, just with a bz2 extension) fixed it, and it all compiled just fine after that. -- Matt Sealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
