"stale work directory" error

[walt]

Huub wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm building gnome on DFBSD 1.6 and get this error:
> 
> ERROR: [depends.mk] A package matching ``glib2>=2.12.3'' should
> ERROR:     be installed, but one cannot be found.  Perhaps there is a
> ERROR:     stale work directory for ../../devel/glib2? ...

The one time I saw a similar error message, it turned out to be
correct:  there was a 'work' directory left over from a previous
(failed) build attempt.  Removing the old 'work' directory fixed
the problem.