Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 18:51:48 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: "michael johnson" <ahze@ahze.net> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports without pkg-descr Message-ID: <446B70C4.20195.AEC7223@dan.langille.org> In-Reply-To: <b2203fed0605171358u4d2cb83jb4ddc0d20337dd87@mail.gmail.com> References: <446B41E3.9161.A355435@dan.langille.org>
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On 17 May 2006 at 16:58, michael johnson wrote: > On 5/17/06, Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > I'm having trouble understanding a few ports and I'm hoping you can > > help. The ports in question are: > > > > devel/glib20-reference > > devel/glibmm-reference > > > > The issue: pkg-descr, or more precisely, the output of make -V DESCR. > > > > [dan@polo:/usr/home/dan/ports/devel/glibmm-reference] $ make -V DESCR > > /usr/home/dan/ports/devel/glibmm-reference/work/pkg-descr > > > > Is that expected? A pkg-descr in the working directory? > > > pkg-descr added to ports, thanks! Thank you. All is well. :) > > If so, that file is created during the build process. Within the > > current FreshPorts framework, this is an anomoly and there is no way > > for the system to go through the steps necessary to create that file. > > > > I have attempted to make both devel/glibmm-reference and and still > > not find a pkg-descr file. Is this expected behaviour? > > > > Is is really necessary to have a pkg-desc that is constructed > > automatically? I ask in case there's a way around this without > > special casing it for FreshPorts. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work > > my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php
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