Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 21:33:51 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> To: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/15822: Update port misc/HomeDaemon to V0.99 Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0001012128250.3979-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: <20000101211436.A18365@Denninger.Net>
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On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Karl Denninger wrote:
# I can see some significant issues here after a bit of testing.
#
# 1. Environment assigned in the PORT Makefile is NOT transported
# (or exported into the actual process environment) for things called
# FROM that Makefile. That is, I cannot set something in the PORT
# makefile and have the other "base" Makefile leave it alone if its
# set, but define it to a default if not.
Sure you can. It is done all the time. If you are talking about
BINMODE, ... then it is because I didn't put it in ${MAKE_ENV}.
PREFIX is by default in MAKE_ENV which is why is works already.
# This is a BIG problem, as it makes it next to impossible for you
# to have a port that works in "either" format without duplicating
# the installation rules and scripts directly in the port makefile.
# Now you have TWO places and things to maintain instead of one (and
# this sucks). Further, and worse, you can get out of sync (which
# will cause untoward trouble).
#
# 2. I can easily import from the base-level Makefile into the compiler
# environment and have. Now how do I get the PORT makefile to allow
# overrides of this? The second I cannot figure a way to do.
Things that can be overridded are defined like this.
FOO ?= bar
# In general this looks to be a problem, and given the choice between
# packaging as a port and following "the rules" (but leaving me with
# dependencies that have to be MANUALLY resolved between a port and its
# underlying code) I'll pass on the port.
#
# Let me know if I'm missing something - it certainly doesn't look like it.
#
# Here's what I *WANT* to do:
#
# # New ports collection makefile for: HomeDaemon
# # Version required: 0.99
# # Date created: 1 January 2000
# # Whom: Karl Denninger
# #
# # $FreeBSD$
# #
#
# DISTNAME= HomeDaemon-0.99
# CATEGORIES= misc
# MASTER_SITES= http://genesis.denninger.net/
#
# MAINTAINER= HomeDaemon@denninger.net
#
# NO_CDROM="No commercial sale w/o permission - see README"
# NO_PACKAGE="Source distribution only - see README"
#
# BINMODE= 4700
# BINOWN= xten
# SHAREMODE= 750
# SHAREOWN= ${BINOWN}
# SHAREDIR= ${PREFIX}/share/HomeDaemon
MAKE_ENV+= BINMODE=${BINMODE} BINOWN=${BINOWN} \
SHAREMODE=${SHAREMODE} SHAREOWN=${SHAREOWN} \
SHAREDIR=${SHAREDIR}
# .include <bsd.port.mk>
#
# And then have the PRODUCT's Makefile look to the "BINMODE", "SHAREDIR", etc
# variables.
#
# If there's no way to get inheritance to work then I'm screwed and either
# the port has to depend on things in the distribution package *OR* I have
# to build install rules into the port *AND SYNC THEM WITH THE MAIN BY HAND*,
# since a difference in definition of directories, for example, WILL break
# the software.
#
# Please tell me what I'm missing (or if I'm really seeing this as it is).
#
# --
# --
# Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) Web: http://childrens-justice.org
# Isn't it time we started putting KIDS first? See the above URL for
# a plan to do exactly that!
#
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