Puzzling error messages from 'make'

[Thomas Schlesinger]

Am Donnerstag, 4. Mai 2006 17:38 schrieb Thomas Schlesinger:
> Am Mittwoch, 3. Mai 2006 21:49 schrieb walt:
> > I've been trying for two days to build firefox from pkgsrc,
> > but the build always halts with this error which I can't
> > decipher:
> >
> > ranlib libjsurl_s.a
> > /usr/pkgsrc/www/firefox/work/mozilla/config/nsinstall -R -m 644
> > libjsurl_s.a ./../../dist/lib
> > make[4]: Leaving directory
> > `/usr/pkgsrc/www/firefox/work/mozilla/dom/src/jsurl' make[4]: write error
>
> <snip>
>
> Walt,
>
> I've had "write errors" while building packages via pkgsrc, too (on other
> packages, not firefox). I had enough space left on /usr, too.
>
> I don't know about the cause for this problem, but for me, it helped often
> (always?) to do a "bmake install clean" again without doing a "bmake clean"
> before.
>
> Thomas

Follow up: I've encountered the problem, for example, today with misc/koffice.

Thomas