Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:07:24 +1000 From: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port maintainer query: what to use to specify serial port? Message-ID: <9799FB13-4235-43C9-BE20-331EA82668D4@brooknet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20060510035430.GM545@bunrab.catwhisker.org> References: <20060510035430.GM545@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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On 10/05/2006, at 1:54 PM, David Wolfskill wrote:
> The author of the port I maintain (astro/gpsman) has recently informed
> me that he's released an updated distribution, so I'd like to
> update the
> FreeBSD port to correspond.
>
> It's a pretty simple port -- it's a Tcl/Tk application; there's no
> compilation involved.
>
> But it is developed under Linux, so the port has a few patches to the
> author's code to make things work better (or "at all") in FreeBSD.
>
> One of the patches has historically changed the default serial port
> from
> /dev/ttyS0 to /dev/cuaa0.
>
> But I just noticed that my laptop (running 6.1-STABLE) doesn't have
> /dev/cuaa0. Right; that was one of the changes from 4.x, so it should
> be /dev/cuad0... well, for 6.x. Is there a decent way to make the
> replacement appropriate for the OS running at the time of installation
> (that isn't so much additional hassle that it's not really worth the
> bother)? Do we care enough about 4.x to address this issue?
>
> Please respond to me, as I'm not subscribed to this list (Reply-To
> set intentionally); feel free to also include the list as a recipient
> of your message if you believe it will be beneficial to do so.
Instead of a device name, you can put something like %%SERIAL%% in
the patched file. Then in the port makefile:
.include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
.if ${OSVERSION} >= 600000
GPSMAN_DEFAULT_PORT?= /dev/cuad0
.else
GPSMAN_DEFAULT_PORT?= /dev/cuaa0
.endif
post-patch:
${REINPLACE_CMD} "s|%%SERIAL%%|${GPSMAN_DEFAULT_PORT}|" ${WRKSRC}/
file_to_patch.tcl
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