Too much verbosity?

kc9udx

I'd ask this on pkgsrc-users, but I'm running NetBSD9.3 and pkgsrc 2023Q2, and I suspect I'd only be told I should try running -current

In /etc/mk.conf I have MAKEVERBOSE= 3
When that is the case, building packages fails (I have only tried a handful like this but all of them fail similarly) with nonsense build syntax. Such as, 2000 lines of searching for a way to make 'l'.

If I set MAKEVERBOSE= 2 then everything works; except when it doesn't, in which case I can't see why due to not enough verbosity...

This is on aarch64. I'm pretty sure I must have used MAKEVERBOSE= 3 on NetBSD 9.2/9.3 and pkgsrc 2023Q2, on i386, evbarm, and amd64 at some point, but I'm not positive. I have never noticed this problem before.

rvp

kc9udx Reminds me of PR #57584: debug output from make messing with the rules.

I think you must be using the system make instead of bmake 'cause I don't see pkgsrc honouring MAKEVERBOSE anywhere. Can you try this patch?

diff -urN a/usr/share/mk/bsd.own.mk b/usr/share/mk/bsd.own.mk
--- a/usr/share/mk/bsd.own.mk	2024-01-01 00:18:40.000000000 +0000
+++ b/usr/share/mk/bsd.own.mk	2024-01-07 07:54:27.014708355 +0000
@@ -1797,7 +1797,7 @@
 .SILENT: __makeverbose_dummy_target__
 .endif	# MAKEVERBOSE >= 2
 .if ${MAKEVERBOSE} >= 3
-.MAKEFLAGS:	-dl
+.MAKEFLAGS:	-dlF/tmp/make.log.%d
 .endif	# ${MAKEVERBOSE} >= 3
 .if ${MAKEVERBOSE} >= 4
 .MAKEFLAGS:	-dx

That should put the debug logs into /tmp/make.log.NNN (and hopefully not pollute stdout). Then, see if make.log provides any clues.