On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 14:38 +0000, RW wrote: > 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, Thanks for the info. Yes, bsd.port.mk changed about a year or so ago now... portmanager still did what I needed it to do, so I just ignored it. I will try and find the old, PR and have a look. thanks, robert. > 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" -- Robert Noland <rnol...@freebsd.org> FreeBSD
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