I think this was probably intended for the list rather than me: On Mar 8, 4:04 pm, RW <rwmailli...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:40:08 -0400 > > Chuck Robey <chu...@telenix.org> wrote: > > Here's the portmanager listing, maybe someone here can tell me > > what's causing portmanager to want to patch my bsd.port.mk, and why > > the patchfile should be so far off, and what might be the CORRECT > > way to fix this. Oh, BTW, I run current, and keep myself that way > > via cvsup.. > > IIRC the patch was made so that when portmanager built a port, the > makefile would call back into portmanager to let it modify the > dependencies. Portmanager had a major rewrite just before the > original author had a row with some FreeBSD people and abandoned the > project. AFAIK the feature wasn't yet used, so it doesn't matter if > the patch doesn't apply since it's a null operation.
I'm the original author of portmanager, haven't done anything bsd related in a few years so memory is a bit vague. I think the patch was to correct a sorting problem with dependencies in freebsd make. I filed a pr against make and was assured there was no way it would ever approved so that patch is a work around. If it is failing, isn't really a big surprise, means something has changed in make finally. Best solution I guess is to determine if make was fixed somewhere along the line, maybey look up the pr i filed agains make? if its fixed now, then remove the patch, if not, then someone who understands scripts needs to recut the patch. I drive a semi for a living now and seriously doubt I'll ever take up programming again for lack of time, so very sorry I'm not able to provide more help with this problem. Mike Shultz _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
