When NO_STAGE=yes is missing in the port's Makefile, as it is for a couple of ports like lang/perl5.16, then portmaster compiles, installs and - corrupt the port-system, because it tries to "lstat" files it can not find and ends up at the end of an unfinished installation. This leaves the entry in the installed-port database corrupted. The port got installed, but the database hasn't an entry anymore.
I found that the port system is in a very bad shape when one is using CURRENT (10.0), where several things happened the same time like converters/libiconv ahs gone as required port, libstdc++ has gone in favour of libc++ and now ports that do not have this NO_STAGE= tag in the toplevel Makefile. About the last piece - I miss a warning/hint/information for those who has not the time following every second informations on the mailing lists! I regret that I forgot about three other ports I stumbled in where the missing NO_STAGE=yes obviously solved the problem after I put it into the Makefile - but that was simply a hunch - without knowing exactly what I do. Again, I miss some informations about that and "googling" didn't brought up deeper insight into that. If someone would be so kind an d delegate me to a proper official website where this NO_STAGE for the ports is explained a bit and further if someone tells me what to do when I stumble into the next port out of the 1200 I have to recompile, I would really appreciate that. Regards, O.H.
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