Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 21:36:14 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: James FitzGibbon <james@nexis.net> Cc: Satoshi Asami <asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd.port.mk Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970517212244.16511B-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970517140623.1036D-100000@nexis.net>
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On Sat, 17 May 1997, James FitzGibbon wrote:
> On Sat, 17 May 1997, Narvi wrote:
>
> > No! No! NO!
> >
> > Yes, it would be great. But I didn't mean something as complex.
> >
> > What I meant is just keeping a copy of the bsd.port.mk file in the "root"
> > directory of the ports (which for some people is /usr/ports).
> >
> > It would make it real easy for people to copy it over to the right place
> > (/usr/share/mk) or make /usr/share/mk/bsd.ports.mk a link to the one in
> > the directory they sup/cvsup ports to.
>
> That makes sense. Basically, so that when someone says "It doesn't work!"
> we can say "Copy /usr/ports/bsd.port.mk over to /usr/share/mk" instead of
> "Well, you have to learn how to CVsup so that you can get a newer copy of
> bsd.port.mk".
>
Exactly.
> Works for me.
Well, actually, if we added (hmm, I haven't tested it, just theoretizing)
a rule to the bsd.port.mk
.if defined(CHECK_BSD_PORT_MK)
/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk: ${PORTSDIR}/bsd.port.mk
install ... ${PORTSDIR}/bsd.port.mk /usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk
.endif
Where CHECK_BSD_PORT_MK is a variable defined by default in /etc/make.conf
If something like make world has already updated it, we don't care. If
not, just replace it.
There are also other issues connected to this:
1) building ports as a user with no write access to /usr/share/mk
the person has to manually undef it in the Makefile.
2) the right place of bsd.port.mk is in the source tree
3) it won't work before people have updated their /etc/make.conf
Sander
>
> --
> j.
>
>
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