Re: Porting question

[Matthew Seaman]

Larry Rosenman wrote:

I've asked portmgr before, but still haven't found a decent way to do what I
want, so let me post this publicly.

I want to make the sysutils/lsof port fail early with a decent message if
the kernel sources aren't loaded on the system.

The most common question/problem report I get is when the lsof configure

Ideas on how to do this cleanly in the port Makefile?

script fails due to a lack of the system sources.

Can't you do something like this?

pre-everything:
        @if [ ! -f /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh ] ; then         \
            ${ECHO_MSG} "==> Error: Can't find kernel sources" ; \
            ${FALSE} ;                                           \
        fi

(completely untested...)

        Cheers,

        Matthew

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