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Date:      Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:29:05 -0800
From:      Jason Helfman <jhelfman@e-e.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>
Subject:   Re: "make readmes" seems to be broken (again)
Message-ID:  <20120112212905.GA78819@dormouse.experts-exchange.com>
In-Reply-To: <20111214004838.GK1593@dormouse.experts-exchange.com>
References:  <20111203173149.224a64e6@cox.net> <20111214004838.GK1593@dormouse.experts-exchange.com>

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On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 04:48:38PM -0800, Jason Helfman thus spake:
>On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 05:31:49PM -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier thus spake:
>>I've just noticed recently that "make readmes" in ports is acting up
>>again (I reported a similar problem several months ago, which did get
>>fixed at the time).
>>
>>Instead of generating a README.html at the top level, category level,
>>and individual packages level, only the top-level and category-level
>>files are being generated.  No README.html files are being generated at
>>the individual package level.
>>
>>I saw (and reported) this same behavior about four months ago, and it
>>did, as I said, get fixed back then.  No idea why it's suddenly broken
>>again now.
>>
>>Can anyone confirm that it's not just a local problem for me, that it
>>is indeed broken for everyone?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>
>Thanks for the report. I have run a job through the portstree to build all
>readme's and found several ports that are affected by this issue and
>submitted problem reports for them.
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?category=&severity=&priority=&class=&state=&sort=none&text=unbreak+make+readme&responsible=&multitext=&originator=&release=
>
>All ports that broke redefined ${ECHO_MSG} which had issues with a target in
>bsd.port.mk. The affected target was: pretty-print-www-site
>
>Thanks!
>-jgh
>

I have committed all of these fixes, so there shouldn't be any more breakage
in the portstree insofar as 'make readme' functionality. We are working on a
larger programmatic fix so this can be handled more efficiently.

Please continue to send reports in if any others surface.

Thanks, again!

- -jgh

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Jason Helfman
System Administrator
experts-exchange.com
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