Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:50:35 -0600 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Alexander Leidinger" <Alexander@leidinger.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Flaw in print/acroread7 (was: Re: [ru@FreeBSD.org: [patch] mixed i386/amd64 ports semi-broken]) Message-ID: <op.s37iqllh9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <20060129221019.1c0a5d10@Magellan.Leidinger.net> References: <20060129185239.GC83362@ip.net.ua> <20060129221019.1c0a5d10@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
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On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:10:19 -0600, Alexander Leidinger
<Alexander@Leidinger.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:52:40 +0200
> Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> I hit this problem attempting to install print/acroread7 on amd64.
>> It depends on emulators/linux_base-8, which rewrites ${ARCH} from
>> "amd64" to "i386". Unfortunately, when linux_base-8 is processed
>> in a submake, e.g., when I run "make fetch-recursive" in
>> print/acroread7, no rewrite of ${ARCH} actually happens because
>> bsd.port.mk mistakenly thinks that ${ARCH} can never change, so
>> it's getting passed ARCH already set to "amd64", and as a highest
>> priority command-line type make(1) variable. This results in
>> ${MD5_FILE} improperly set to distinfo.amd64 which doesn't exist.
>> Here's a fix:
>>
>> %%%
>> Index: bsd.port.mk
<snip>
> But there are more flaws in Trevor's ports and I decided to let
> other people "handle" it (e.g. mezz has some patches for acroread7
> which would let the port behave more to the rules of the porters
> handbook).
ports/90319 , I doubt that I will ever finish with it full for other slave
ports like language ports. All that language stuff have made my insterest
lost. If Adobe decides to create a language pack or use gettext stuff
(share/locale) then my insterest will be back. If anyone is willing to
take over, then I believe that you won't be need Trevor's approve since he
hasn't reply for over a month and even there have several PRs for him
either.
Cheers,
Mezz
> Bye,
> Alexander.
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