Thank you for the explanatory reply. Much appreciated. I've tried, however, patching mail/postfix (not lang/postfix), but I get the following erroneous output:
# pwd /usr/ports/mail/postfix # patch < postfix-also-respect-default-warnings-too.diff Hmm... Looks like a unified diff to me... The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- |Index: Makefile |=================================================================== |--- Makefile (revision 337172) |+++ Makefile (working copy) -------------------------- Patching file Makefile using Plan A... patch: **** malformed patch at line 7: MAKEFILEFLAGS+= CC="${CC}" OPT="${CFLAGS}" FYI. I assume you and maintainer are much better at this than I am :-). -- Vyrdsamt, Jakob Breivik Grimstveit | +47 4829 8152 http://grimstveit.no/jakob On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Kubilay Kocak <koobs.free...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 27/12/2013 6:59 PM, Jakob Breivik Grimstveit wrote: > > mail/postfix-current behaves somewhat strange while building, is it > > anything I should correct? > > > > > > $ sudo make clean > > make: "/usr/ports/mail/postfix-current/Makefile" line 92: warning: > Couldn't > > read shell's output for "/usr/bin/grep -m 1 '^purgestat' > > /etc/mail/mailer.conf || true" > > make[1]: "/usr/ports/mail/postfix-current/Makefile" line 92: warning: > > Couldn't read shell's output for "/usr/bin/grep -m 1 '^purgestat' > > /etc/mail/mailer.conf || true" > > ===> Cleaning for postfix-current-base-2.11.20131001,4 > > make[1]: "/usr/ports/mail/postfix-current/Makefile" line 92: warning: > > Couldn't read shell's output for "/usr/bin/grep -m 1 '^purgestat' > > /etc/mail/mailer.conf || true" > > > > [...] > > > > And while building, I get a bunch (probably thousands) of these: > > > > duplex_pipe.c:8:1: warning: '/*' within block comment [-Wcomment] > > /* > > ^ > > duplex_pipe.c:9:1: warning: '/*' within block comment [-Wcomment] > > /* int duplex_pipe(fds) > > ^ > > duplex_pipe.c:10:1: warning: '/*' within block comment [-Wcomment] > > /* int *fds; > > ^ > > > > [...] > > > > ../../include/argv.h:6:1: warning: '/*' within block comment [-Wcomment] > > /* argv 3h > > ^ > > ../../include/argv.h:7:1: warning: '/*' within block comment [-Wcomment] > > /* SUMMARY > > ^ > > ../../include/argv.h:8:1: warning: '/*' within block comment [-Wcomment] > > /* string array utilities > > ^ > > ../../include/argv.h:9:1: warning: '/*' within block comment [-Wcomment] > > /* SYNOPSIS > > ^ > > > > Thank you in advance. > > > > Hi Jakob, > > These comment warnings have been observable for as long as I can > remember, though only with postfix ports (not upstream) when also built > with clang. > > This is caused by the override of CC and CCARGS, which clobbers the > warnings postfix configures by default. Another instance of these > symptoms, albeit with a slightly different root cause can be seen here: > > http://marc.info/?l=postfix-users&m=134260003817238&w=2 > > The reason behind the override is a policy in the porters handbook that > recommends respecting user-supplied CC, CXX and CFLAGS, which the > postfix ports follow: > > > http://www.au.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.html#dads-cc > > > http://www.au.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.html#dads-cflags > > While the recommendations above are well-intentioned and grounded > (respect user choice & consistent builds), this is one example of where > doing so is at least a POLA violation, but ultimately harmless. > > At worst, for other software in the ports tree where upstream authors > customise flags for very good reasons, the results could be functionally > pathological. This is fortunately not the case here, but worth us > considering more broadly. > > Attached is a patch (to lang/postfix) which restores the default warning > flags while continuing to respect user-supplied flags. This can likely > be applied to all postfix ports. Maintainer is CC'd. > > I've tested it quickly here with the expected results, if you could do > the same and let us know how it goes, that would be great. > > Thanks :) > > -- > koobs > > _______________________________________________ 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"