From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Aug 20 9:11:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB62E1534F; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:11:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id JAA05006; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:09:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: green owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:09:30 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/ddd Makefile In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 20 Aug 1999, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > * Back out serious breakage introduced by previous commit: you can't use > * ${SED} and ${AWK} in != statements because they are executed > * immediately. > > Please test stuff before committing. This Makefile couldn't have done > *anything* without spitting out errors like a gallstone. :< > > Syntax errors in Makefiles are extremely hard to track down since I > usually find this when the whole package build blows up when INDEX > generation fails. And since the INDEX is sorted, it is not clear > where the error comes from. :< Sorry. Were those bogus portlint warnings then? > > Satoshi > -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman / "Any sufficiently advanced bug is \ green@FreeBSD.org | indistinguishable from a feature." | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! \ -- Rich Kulawiec / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message