From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Mar 4 19:32:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.knology.net (user-24-214-63-12.knology.net [24.214.63.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D56CE37B719 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 19:32:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@havk.org) Received: (qmail 16996 invoked by uid 1003); 5 Mar 2001 03:34:49 -0000 Received: from user-24-214-88-8.knology.net (HELO bsd.havk.org) (24.214.88.8) by user-24-214-63-12.knology.net with SMTP; 5 Mar 2001 03:34:49 -0000 Received: by bsd.havk.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A86CE1A7AD; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 21:32:21 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 21:32:21 -0600 From: Steve Price To: Gerald Pfeifer Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/24383: libtool, USE_LIBTOOL, and graphics/dia Message-ID: <20010304213221.P61311@bsd.havk.org> References: <200102260247.f1Q2lFG65229@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:00:44PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:00:44PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 steve@freebsd.org wrote: > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > > State-Changed-By: steve > > State-Changed-When: Sun Feb 25 18:45:07 PST 2001 > > State-Changed-Why: > > Add DES suggested you can either use porteasy. Or you can use portcheckout. > > I'm grateful to those that helpfully suggested these workarounds (thus > solving my immediate problems) but I don't really consider these proper > *fixes* for the for the problem I reported. > > Should this PR really be closed? I think so. The ports collection is meant to be used as a whole. Using it by extracting a single port and trying to build it without all of the dependency ports where it can find them would be like removing the driver seat from your car, placing it in your driveway, sitting down on it, and expecting to drive your seat to the store for beer. However, if you insist on doing this then you are encouraged to use the tools that were designed to make this possible - porteasy and portcheckout among others. If neither of these work for you then please supply patches or detailed problem reports to their respective maintainers and they'll fix you up. If you still think the ports collection mechanism is broken or somehow flawed then please supply patches to ports/bsd.*.mk as appropriate that fixes the problem you are seeing and we'll be happy to review them and get them committed. Thanks. -Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message