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Date: Wed Jul 11 05:08:02 2001
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Hi,

what are the reasons for this error to come :

ebuild fping-2.4b1.ebuild digest
!!! Name error in 2.4b1
!!! Error: PF is null; exiting.


the ebuild is as follows :

P=fping-2.4b1.tar.gz
S=${WORKDIR}/fping-2.4b1
DESCRIPTION="A utility to ping multiple hosts at once"
SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/admin/mon/${P}.tar.gz"
HOMEPAGE="http://www.stanford.edu/~schemers/docs/fping/fping.html"

src_unpack() {
  unpack ${A}
    cp ${FILESDIR}/fping.c ${S}
    }
    
    src_compile() {
    
        cd ${S}
            try ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=${CHOST}
                try make
                
                }
                
                src_install () {
                
                    cd ${S}
                        dobin fping
                            doman fping.8
                                dodoc COPYING ChangeLog README
                                
                                }
                                
                                
regards,
                                
pm