From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 9 18:29:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98ADF16A50C for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 18:29:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org (bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org [198.22.63.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6C0A43D49 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 18:29:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mwlucas@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org) Received: from bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org (mwlucas@localhost [127.0.0.1])i79ITK3v028534; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 14:29:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost)i79ITJG3028533; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 14:29:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 14:29:19 -0400 From: "Michael W. Lucas" To: Michael Nottebrock Message-ID: <20040809182919.GB27989@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> References: <20040809173201.GA27989@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <200408092020.14524.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200408092020.14524.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Spam-Score: (0) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ugly perl module install X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 18:29:23 -0000 On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 08:20:11PM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Monday 09 August 2004 19:32, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Before I go state in an article that we have an ugly port, I thought > > I'd mention it to the maintainer (ports@) > > Ports@ is no maintainer, it's a mailinglist. ratbastard/usr/ports/net-mgmt/p5-Cflow;grep -i maintainer Makefile MAINTAINER= ports@FreeBSD.org ratbastard/usr/ports/net-mgmt/p5-Cflow; So, I wrote the maintainer. :-) > > Surely we could, say, include a patch to net-mgmt/p5-Cflow to make the > > port check for $PREFIX/lib/libft.a rather than the ../../lib/libft.a? > > > > If not, I'll document the ugliness in this instance and make a cranky > > comment about how knowing how to actually build software is still > > useful these days, and these kids don't know how good they have it > > with "configure" and so on... ;-) > > A working patch/Makefile change/whatever, submitted via send-pr would be more > useful. It seems you already have spent some time figuring the problem out, > why not provide a fix? If just patching the source like this is legal, then I'll do that. I don't generally go near the ports, and hence don't keep up with the standard way of doing things (other than the user perspective, of course.) ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org "I'm sorry, but 'Social Darwinism' is no excuse for killing all of your co-workers." -- Ivan Brunetti http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/