On 18 November 2010 21:00, Rob Farmer <rfar...@predatorlabs.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:25, Eir Nym <eir...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Firstly, it is optional part.
>
> You didn't answer my question:
>
> .if exists(/bin/csh)
> CSH?= /bin/csh
> .else
> CSH?= # What goes here?
> .endif
>
nope, only CSH?= /bin/csh without any other checks.
Port should check if ${CSH} is exits in the system.
And there no replacement in ports tree for this.
And this variable can be in Makefile for port because it is uncommon.
> And I'm aware it can be dropped using a knob. But I don't think port
> maintainers should be expected to support anything other than a full
> base system. This port needs csh, so it will fail if you don't have
> csh.
>
>> and I can rewrite build script to
>> make(1) or at least shell script
>
> Ok, great. But you are still basically saying that certain base system
> utilities should be off limits because you have chosen to remove them
> from your system.
>
If you want, you can remove tcsh(1) from your system using
WITHOUT_TCSH in src.conf(5) with rebuilding system, and then removing
obsolete files.
> --
> Rob Farmer
>
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