From owner-cvs-all Mon Aug 20 8:43:39 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from lists.unixathome.org (lists.unixathome.org [210.48.103.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4258F37B42F; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 08:43:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@lists.unixathome.org) Received: from wocker (lists.unixathome.org [210.48.103.158]) by lists.unixathome.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f7KFgi044996; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 03:42:45 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from dan@lists.unixathome.org) From: "Dan Langille" Organization: novice in training To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:42:34 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/biology/p5-bioperl-devel Makefile ports/biology/p5-bioperl-devel/files Makefile.man Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: Johann Visagie , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3B80F7AA.10907.599E570@localhost> In-reply-to: <20010820103657.D74106@madman.nectar.com> References: <3B80F0F1.3282.57FA006@localhost>; from dan@langille.org on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:13:53AM -0400 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 20 Aug 2001, at 10:36, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > Why does FreshPorts care? If it wants Makefile variable values, it > should invoke (or emulate) make. It does invoke make. But it needs all the components in order for make to function. I can hear the questions now... Why not use cvsup? Too much overhead. FreshPorts uses "fetch" to obtain the pieces it needs. FreshPorts "knows" the basic components needed to extract the information it needs. The port in question needs files/Makefile.man in order for the "make -V PORTVERSION -V etc...." to function. I have already modified FreshPorts to cater for this special case. But I'd like to see a standard set in order to avoid special cases. -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ - the place for ports To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message