From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 23 23:58:36 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92C321065670 for ; Sun, 23 May 2010 23:58:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phoffman@proper.com) Received: from hoffman.proper.com (Hoffman.Proper.COM [207.182.41.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A70A8FC08 for ; Sun, 23 May 2010 23:58:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.20.30.158] (75-101-30-90.dsl.dynamic.sonic.net [75.101.30.90]) (authenticated bits=0) by hoffman.proper.com (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o4NNkmlL080964 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 23 May 2010 16:46:49 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from phoffman@proper.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 16:46:46 -0700 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org From: Paul Hoffman Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: How to determine the history of a port X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 23:58:36 -0000 Greetings again. A few years ago, I proposed editors/emacs-nox11 and submitted a patch to create it, and thus became listed in the comments at the beginning of the Makefile (but I am not the package maintainer, I believe). Today I got a report that the package does not build; I verified this. I want to help the user, but I have no idea how the change that broke the build was added to the Makefile. How do I find the history so I can find out who added the problematic line and figure out what they actually meant? --Paul Hoffman