From owner-cvs-all Tue Oct 30 6:30:56 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from squall.waterspout.com (squall.waterspout.com [208.13.56.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BCB737B405; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 06:30:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by squall.waterspout.com (Postfix, from userid 1050) id 5AA709B08; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:29:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:29:40 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: David O'Brien Cc: Maxim Sobolev , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/AbiWord Makefile Message-ID: <20011030092940.M6322@squall.waterspout.com> Reply-To: Will Andrews Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Maxim Sobolev , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200110300955.f9U9tVQ44335@vega.vega.com> <20011030021847.D31498@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011030021847.D31498@dragon.nuxi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 02:18:47AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > > > Don't USE_AUTOCONF=yes -- this port doesn't let bsd.port.mk run autoconf > > > as is intended. I don't know what the porter was trying to acompilsh. > > > Also, I accidently removed some lines I didn't intend to. > > > > Huh, have you tried to contact maintainer about that first? > > UH.. don't need to -- I have email straigh from Satoshi asking me to do > something about this. Be careful what that implies. Maxim was trying to help by pointing you at the maintainer for "what the porter was trying to accomplish". Obviously, since you don't maintain this port, it's a good idea to ask, even if you don't need their permission to commit to the port... > I asked for you and portmgr to help engineer a solution. I got > little to no help. I am actually dishartened that a non-portmgr > person had to take this one as the portmgr people didn't seem > interested in well...maintaining the ports collection as a > collection. That's not fair. I don't have time to do this sort of thing *right now*. I have to *prioritize*. I won't speak for any of the other portmgr members, however. But I will say I'm glad someone is working on this problem. I am not a fan of being left in the dust by other bsd's/linux. -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message