Date: 20 Apr 2000 01:20:47 -0700 From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: Dirk Froemberg <dirk@freebsd.org> Cc: Michael Haro <mharo@freebsd.org>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/databases/mysql322-server Makefile Message-ID: <vqc1z415gkg.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Dirk Froemberg's message of "Thu, 20 Apr 2000 09:53:45 %2B0200" References: <200004200444.VAA93179@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000420095344.A67299@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>
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* From: Dirk Froemberg <dirk@freebsd.org>
* What is the SLAVEDIRS variable good for?
Sorry, I discussed it with Michael but didn't send it to the list.
The SLAVEDIRS is a list of ports that include this port via
MASTERDIR. Its primary purpose is to make it easier to find which
ports might be affected when you change a certain Makefile (ever
wondered about those ?='s?).
Basically what we have now is a one-way linked forest, such as
editors/mule
^ ^ ^ ^ ^
| | | | |
| | | | japanese/mule-canna
| | | japanese/mule-sj3
| | japanese/mule-wnn4
| korean/mule-wnn4
chinise/mule-wnn4
with no link from the parent to the children. SLAVEDIRS adds reverse
links so we can traverse the trees in either direction.
mharo said he's going to fix portlint to check this list as well as
make portlint say something sensible when you run it on a slave port.
I'm also thinking of adding some kind of test to bsd.port.mk, but that
needs more thought (surely bsd.port.mk complaining wrongly is much
more serious than portlint doing the same).
Satoshi
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