Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:12:58 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Benjamin Lutz <benlutz@datacomm.ch> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: prebuild sanity checks Message-ID: <20050818001258.GA14367@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <4303CF35.400@datacomm.ch> References: <20050817195839.GA22027@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <4303CF35.400@datacomm.ch>
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--envbJBWh7q8WU6mo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 01:58:45AM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: > [...] > > Another option might be a new variable (or variables) that ports that > > tend to break spectacularly and unobviously can set like: > > > > BUILD_DEVS=3D null zero >=20 > As a potential user of such a variable, I wonder how I'm supposed to > figure out which basic system facilities are required by a given piece > of software. Either by having it fail and debugging it or by doing a build with one of the common culprates missing from devfs. In theory it would see that you could do a periodic sweep using the package cluster. > I think the right thing to do here would be to have the software react > more sensibly to such a problem, ie bail out with an error message. In > other words: have the people upstream change their software. In theory yes. In practice, I'm sure a lot of software authors won't care about supporting this environment. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDA9KKXY6L6fI4GtQRAkp7AKCZvddhs5D+/thKC4Vjo2ooWtpMJQCgk/lo kawvxLOGi0pHI3GblwhTx7M= =JtJH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo--
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