From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jun 7 4:33:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B40637B738; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 04:32:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12ze4k-0006eV-00; Wed, 07 Jun 2000 13:32:46 +0200 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 13:32:46 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: David O'Brien Cc: Alexander Langer , asami@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: patches/ handling Message-ID: <20000607133246.A25520@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000605184259.A21736@cichlids.cichlids.com> <20000606210209.B20037@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000606210209.B20037@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@freebsd.org on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 09:02:10PM -0700 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue 2000-06-06 (21:02), David O'Brien wrote: > Why can't the patches' code be wrapped by "#ifdef __alpha__" and have a > single patch? Only works for C (-like) programming code, others (non-programming included) may be a problem. Of course, I prefer changes in the post-patch target of the Makefile. Or we can put the patch in the files/ directory. Since we've only run into the problem once before, maybe we can handle it better in other ways? Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message