Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 21:24:07 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ghostscript 5 port is broken Message-ID: <199710121154.VAA01129@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Oct 1997 04:24:30 MST." <199710121124.EAA04134@bubble.didi.com>
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> * - It requires the jpeg6 and png ports for building, but fails to > * detect that they are already installed. Instead, it depends on > * the file /nonexistent, ie. it *always* extracts, builds and installs > * both these ports. This will fail if they have already been > * installed. ... > You need a new bsd.port.mk for both these things. How does a new bsd.port.mk handle depending on /nonexistent in the ghostscript5 Makefile as opposed to depending on the relevant shared libraries? > Really. I'm building all ports (except interactive or restricted > ones) about once per week now. Please do not expect something this > basic to be broken so long, and do not send mail to -ports without > upgrading at least your bsd.port.mk to the latest version. It looks like something stale happened (this is supposed to be my 2.2.5-BETA test system, but it's misbehaving such that I think something got splatted, but believe me I wouldn't have bothered to report this if I thought that it wasn't actually a fundamental problem with the port. mike
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