Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 02:58:42 -0600 From: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Latest round of bsd.*.mk changes Message-ID: <opr2t8j4cy8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20040204084200.GA19129@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1075871381.76993.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <200402041012.01057.andy@athame.co.uk> <1075883393.76993.63.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20040204084200.GA19129@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 00:42:00 -0800, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 03:29:54AM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > >> Perhaps we need something like USE_GETTEXT_BUILD similar to >> USE_PERL5_BUILD. Whatever is the choice, please submit a PR so we can >> track this. Thanks. > > Is that really necessary? i.e. does it buy a significant improvement > over using the explicit BUILD_DEPENDS in the relative few ports that > use it? Shorter to type? ;-) Serious, I agree with you, kris. I don't see any point to add USE_GETTEXT_BUILD if it's only 'BUILD_DEPENDS= xgettext:[..]gettext'. Nite people, /me goes to bed. Cheers, Mezz > I'm becoming concerned at the proliferation of variables being added > to b.p.m - the trend towards macro'izing every conceivable shell > command used by ports is another one I'm uncomfortable with (why?). > > Kris -- bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.
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