Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 16:11:36 -0800 (PST) From: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Cc: brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu, ac199@hwcn.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd.port.mk bug??? Message-ID: <199803190011.QAA15916@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980319000854.30236@follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "Mar 19, 98 00:08:54 am"
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According to Eivind Eklund:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 11:48:58AM -0800, Steven G. Kargl wrote:
>
> Let's say checking a port for problems with obsolete TK versions take 3
> minutes on average (and some of the cases are pretty complex, so I don't
> think that's runreasonable). 1400*3 = 7000 minutes, approximately 3 work
> weeks.
>
> It's Too Expensive To Check.
>
> Was that simple enough words for you?
>
> BTW: Looking at dependencies is not good enough, just to counter that
> argument before it shows up.
>
I don't see any smiley faces, so I'll assume you are serious.
There are 1078 Makefiles in my /usr/ports. I've conceded that I
don't have the entire ports trees because japanese, korean, etc
are irrelevant to me. Of those 1078 Makefiles, there are 59
references to the string "tk" in the CATEGORIES variable. There can be
only 59 ports that have a problem with an obsolete tk.h. Only those
59 ports need to check for obsolete tk.h, while the other 1019 possible
ports (yes, I know some Makefiles don't contain a CATEGORIES line) are
completed oblivious to tk.h.
cd /usr/ports/devel/tkcvs
make (Oh damn, I have to waste 3 minutes checking for an obselete tk.h)
cd /usr/ports/lang/egcs
make (Boy, I'm tickled pink because I don't have to waste 3 minutes checking
for an obselete tk.h)
--
Steve
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