Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:24:50 +0100 (CET) From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> To: Steve Price <steve@havk.org> Cc: <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ports/24383: libtool, USE_LIBTOOL, and graphics/dia Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103082312380.12151-100000@deneb.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <20010304213221.P61311@bsd.havk.org>
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On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Steve Price wrote: >> Should this PR really be closed? > I think so. The ports collection is meant to be used as a whole. > Using it by extracting a single port and trying to build it without > all of the dependency ports where it can find them would be like > removing the driver seat from your car, placing it in your driveway, > sitting down on it, and expecting to drive your seat to the store > for beer. Well, it's not that clear. For one, most of the time it does work. And the reason I was led to believe it ought to work (especially as USE_LIBTOOL) is the fact that the CVSup config files have a very finely grained structure. > If you still think the ports collection mechanism is broken or somehow > flawed then please supply patches to ports/bsd.*.mk as appropriate > that fixes the problem you are seeing and we'll be happy to review > them and get them committed. I certainly won't waste my time submitting any patch to ports/bsd.*.mk as long as this part of FreeBSD is micro-managed as it currently is: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?responsible=asami There *are* already *lots* of patches for ports/bsd.*.mk -- unreviewed and uncomitted. :-( Just one example: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=8063 Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-ports->asami Responsible-Changed-By: asami Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Sep 28 04:47:33 PDT 1998 Responsible-Changed-Why: My area. Frustrating. Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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