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From: Ruslan Shevchenko <rssh@cki.ipri.kiev.ua>
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Subject: Re: about portlint
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itojun@itojun.org wrote:
> 
> >>         how's this?
> >>         ftp://ftp.foretune.co.jp/pub/tools/portlint/portlint.pl-1.14
> >1. As I can understand, you chack pathname in
> > PATHSITES, PATHFILES.
> >what if i have patch, living in directory
> >ftp.x.y/pub/usr/X11R6/lib/patch-for-foo ?
> >(of course, probability is low, but exists)
> 
>         I've added some rules to exclude URLs from the absolute
>         pathname check.
> 
> >2. How about checkpathname in all files from
> >  scripts/* (--optional, with WARH) ?
> 
>         I'll try it,

 + pkg/REQ pkg/INSTALL pkg/DEINSTALL

> 
> >No, it's I sorry.
> > It is my port: pr-3758.
> >You don't need to look at it, the matter, that the SR
> >have own configure script, in which prefix must be parameter.
> >then, in configure i seen the code in next style:
> >  case $prefix in)
> >      /opt)
> >           .....
> >So, i *must* to write an absolute pathname.
> >So, I want future, such as:
> >### ---portlint, do not look at next line--- ###.
> >PREFIX=/usr/local
> 
>         like /*NOTREACHED*/ or /*ARGSUSED*/ in real lint?
>         mmm, that depends on how you interpret the warning from portlint.
> 
>         If you know what you are doing, I believe you can ignore what
>         portlint warns you in the above case.
>         portlint can never be a perfect parser for makefile/shell script/
>         whatever... (of course I'm trying to, but I have to make a
>         compromise at some level)

It can be very simple pattern-matching mechanism, 
I think, that some trivial, as
#BEGIN portlint-ignore

#END portlin ignore

would be ok.
> 
>         anyway thanks for the comments, I'll try to update soon.
> 
> itojun