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From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
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Subject: Re: Improving /usr/ports/Makefile  ?
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Aleksandar Simic wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> from time to time you see people asking on questions why is it that
> their 'make index' is failing after they cvsup-ed all but excluded
> some region specific ports directories, most commonly:
> 
> arabic, chinese, hebrew, hungarian, japanese, korean, polish,
> portuguese, russian, ukrainian, vietnamese
> 
> Could a check be added to see if the above directories, or any other
> 'undesirable' ones are non existant and if they are, that they should
> be ignored ? 
> 
> Something like this:
> 
> 
> *** /usr/ports/Makefile	Sat May  1 14:20:36 2004
> --- /tmp/Makefile	Sat May  1 09:27:44 2004
> ***************
> *** 1,66 ****
> --- 1,186 ----
>   # $FreeBSD: ports/Makefile,v 1.82 2004/04/02 07:25:23 kris Exp $
>   #
>   
> + .if exists (${.CURDIR}/accessibility)
>   SUBDIR += accessibility
> + .endif

... it's not that easy, because ports from one category need ports from
another, so the INDEx generation fails anyway. I tested a script that
calculated complete subsets, but they were not very useful.

-Oliver