Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 17:56:38 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Yest one more: devel/crosssco Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980331175140.12625H-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980331144954.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > I can accept this reality as ``this is what it is'', but not the > ``acusation'' that my system is broken. That's not supported by the facts, Simon. I can easily make the building of a port break. Great example in point is gimp. Take the normal gimp port and install it. After it is installed, make gimp-devel. The building of gimp-devel will notice parts of the other gimp on your system, and misconfigure things. When you get gimp-devel installed, it will not work at all (core dumps or missing features). It's not the port that's broken here, it's your test environment. If your being stubborn and saying that all ports should totally ignore their environment, well, this is not now and never has been true, but if you won't acknowldege it, I guess your next paragraph (regrettably) makes sense. For everyone else, ports _do_ work, within limitations. > > I will not report any more of these breakages to these lists. Instead, I > will download the binaries from ftp.freebsd.org and mark them, in our > release notes as ``binary only. Not reproducable''. > > Thanx for all the help. > > Simon > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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