Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 21:52:26 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: obrien@NUXI.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/print/c2ps Makefile Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980227215114.316Q-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199802280210.SAA19632@vader.cs.berkeley.edu>
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On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> * I'll be a pain [read US-centric] and assume a2ps-letter contains the full
> * port. Make
> *
> * PAPERSIZE?= letter # what ever varient spelling
> * PKGNAME= a2ps-${PAPERSIZE}
> *
> * a2ps-a2 would
> *
> * PAPERSIZE=a4
> * .include "${.CURDIR}/../a2ps-letter/Makefile"
> * FILESDIR= ....
> * PATCHDIR= ....
> * PKGDIR= ....
> *
> * There shouldn't be any differences in the PLISTs.
>
> I think I completely failed to get my point across. That is exactly
> what I was thinking.
If you do that, the many folks who download a single port will have it
fail on them. These are the same folks who wouldn't understand why. The
gain? This is a smallish port, so about a thousand bytes.
>
> * > print/a2ps-letter/Makefile:
> * > ===
> * > :
> * > .if defined(PAPERSIZE) && ${PAPERSIZE} != letter
> * > BROKEN= This port is for Letter-sized printerheads. Go to ${PORTSDIR}/print/a2ps-a4 for A4 paper size.
> * > .endif
> * > ===
> *
> * No need to make it broken. All (most?) of the printing ports already
> * have a default, but it is easily overridable.
>
> This pertains to the second part of my message, about being able to
> type "make PAPERSIZE=a4" from ports/print and let it DTRT. Sort of a
> "safety belt" for people used to the current framework.
>
> Satoshi
>
>
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