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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  * the system and Tcl as a truly outdated port?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 It only flags tcl installed as part of a truly outdated system or a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 truly outdated port.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.

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