From owner-cvs-all Tue Oct 30 3: 0:33 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from ipcard.iptcom.net (ipcard.iptcom.net [212.9.224.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D7C637B403; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 03:00:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from vega.vega.com (h128.228.dialup.iptcom.net [212.9.228.128]) by ipcard.iptcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA99450; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:00:12 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from max@vega.com) Received: (from max@localhost) by vega.vega.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f9UAxRZ44541; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 12:59:27 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) From: Maxim Sobolev Message-Id: <200110301059.f9UAxRZ44541@vega.vega.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/AbiWord Makefile To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 12:58:07 +0200 (EET) Cc: sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG (Maxim Sobolev), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20011030021847.D31498@dragon.nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at Oct 30, 2001 02:18:47 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL5] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:54:11AM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > obrien 2001/10/30 00:52:07 PST > > > > > > Modified files: > > > editors/AbiWord Makefile > > > Log: > > > Don't USE_AUTOCONF=yes -- this port doesn't let bsd.port.mk run autoconf > > > as is intended. I don't know what the porter was trying to acompilsh. > > > Also, I accidently removed some lines I didn't intend to. > > > > Huh, have you tried to contact maintainer about that first? > > UH.. don't need to -- I have email straigh from Satoshi asking me to do > something about this. About what? You broke previous documented assumption that ${AUTOMAKE} is a path to a sript and that caused lot of breakage. But instead of fixing the real source of problem you started "fixing" in the wrong place. > > You broke bsd.port.mk by introducing a false assumption that the > > automake port should be called ${PORTSDIR}/devel/${AUTOMAKE}, > > no I didn't, ports doing something crazy with AUTOMAKE should either > not be setting USE_AUTOMAKE. As it stands a port maintainer can > update to newer automake (version 1.5) just by adding > AUTOMAKE=automake. Synopsis in the bsd.port.mk clearly indicates that ${AUTOMAKE} is a *path* to automake script and I do not see why there should be 1:1 mapping between this path and name of the automake port. If you are going to change semantincs of it please do it orderly, i.e. discuss it on ports@, document it, give people a time to convert to a new order and only then pull a switch. > I asked for you and portmgr to help engineer a solution. I got > little to no help. I am actually dishartened that a non-portmgr > person had to take this one as the portmgr people didn't seem > interested in well...maintaining the ports collection as a > collection. Huh, I am not sure about portmgr@ as a whole, but I was trying to communicate to you my vision of the problem. Unfortunately my arguments were ignored by you without any reasonable objections, so after a sufficient number of tries I've just gave up feeling that any further discussion is absolutly pointless. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message