Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 13:13:23 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsd.port.mk broken on -current Message-ID: <199801080243.NAA00357@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jan 1998 16:10:53 -0800." <199801080010.QAA16580@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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> * Was the recent breaking of bsd.port.mk on current (the Tcl detection > * stuff) accidental or deliberate? > > I would not call that breaking. I sent a patch out to the lists, > tested it on the package building machine for a few weeks before > committing it. Fair enough. Bear in mind that not everybody reads -ports though, and this *was* a pretty brutal change. > * Is there any intention to perhaps improve the intelligence of the > * detection slightly to differentiate between Tcl installed as part of > * the system and Tcl as a truly outdated port? > > It only flags tcl installed as part of a truly outdated system or a > truly outdated port. This is not the impression given by the diagnostic. > * "/usr/*/*tcl*" hits /usr/bin/tclsh, which is a standard -current system > * component. > > Read bsd.port.mk. That is not the pattern that it checks. Then the diagnostic is incorrect: word:/usr/ports/lang/lcc>make ===> lcc-3.6 : You have an old tcl installation on your machine. Remove everything that matches /usr/*/*tcl* first. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\
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