I'm trying to build MySQL from the port tree in /usr/ports. I run:

# make install

from inside the directory, and I get several screens of promising looking output, but then it fails with this:


>>> START PASTED TEXT <<<

===> mysql-client-4.0.20 depends on: gmake-3.80 - not found
===> Verifying install for gmake-3.80 in devel/gmake
===> Installing gmake-3.80 from /usr/ports/packages/i386/all/gmake-3.80.tgz
Unknown option: a
Adding /usr/ports/packages/i386/all/gmake-3.80.tgz
Collision: the following files already exists
/usr/local/bin/gmake
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gmake (line 1799 of /usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk).
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/databases/mysql (line 1264 of /usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk).
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/databases/mysql (line 1531 of /usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk).

>>> END PASTED TEXT <<<


gmake already exists in /usr/local/bin/gmake. Why doesn't it know that it's already there, and why does it barf when it tries to overwrite it?

I also got this gmake error with the last port I tried to install, bzip2.

What gives? I can find other references to this problem online, but no answers are forthcoming.

Anyone know anything?

-E

Look in /var/db/pkg to see if a gmake port is already installed. You may need to uninstall it with pkg_delete so that the new version can be built and installed correctly. You can test the pkg_delete operation with the -n flag to see what it will do prior to actually removing the files. Read the man page for more information.

/var/db/pkg $ ls -l
total 52
drwxr-xr-x 13 root wheel 512 Oct 19 14:26 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Oct 9 03:30 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 23 05:12 gettext-0.10.40p1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 22 05:47 hackdata-3.4.1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 23 05:11 libiconv-1.9.1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 23 05:17 ncftp-3.1.7
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 22 05:47 nethack-3.4.1-no_x11
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Oct 19 14:26 nmap-3.50-no_x11
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Oct 19 14:26 pcre-4.5
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 23 05:12 php4-core-4.3.8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 23 05:12 recode-3.6p1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 30 08:50 sniffit-0.3.7b
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 23 15:11 vim-6.2.318-no_x11


No gmake package installed.

Hmm, what version of OpenBSD are you using and how recently did you update your ports tree? It's possible that your userland is out-of-sync with the ports tree and that's what's causing the problem.