From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Sep 9 6:30:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76D7A37B422 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 06:30:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13Xki2-000IQt-00; Sat, 09 Sep 2000 15:30:18 +0200 Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 15:30:17 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Nilmoni Deb Cc: Theo Bell , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Ports Magick Unclear, Proposal to demystify (Was: Re: adding a port) Message-ID: <20000909153017.A70840@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000830212332.A96743@mithrandr.moria.org> <20000830215831.A96939@mithrandr.moria.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000830215831.A96939@mithrandr.moria.org>; from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org on Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:58:32PM +0200 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed 2000-08-30 (21:58), Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > I propose a target "wheredist" to return ${DISTDIR}/${DIST_SUBDIR} to > make the documentation and usage much easier. I also propose that > > ${ECHO_MSG} ">> $$file doesn't seem to exist on this system." > > be changed to: > > ${ECHO_MSG} ">> $$file doesn't seem to exist in ${DISTDIR}/${DIST_SUBDIR}." Satoshi just committed something like this - cvsup sometime and see whether it will suffice. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message