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Date:      Tue, 25 Dec 2001 10:49:53 -0500
From:      Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net>
To:        Pete Fritchman <petef@databits.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports List <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Request for all ports
Message-ID:  <20011225154953.GA82681@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>
In-Reply-To: <20011225104517.B42161@databits.net>
References:  <1098.192.168.167.6.1009294752.squirrel@192.168.167.1> <20011225104517.B42161@databits.net>

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On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 10:45:17AM -0500, Pete Fritchman wrote:
>++ 26/12/01 02:39 +1100 - Daeron:
>|  Could you include in your guidelines for ports directories a request that 
>| everyone use "CONFIGURE_ARGS+=" instead of a "CONFIGURE_ARGS="  to allow 
>| people to pass additional parameters without having to hack the Makefile.
>|  Perhaps you could consider running a script to update any existing 
>| port-Makefiles seeming it is such a small change?
>
>I agree with you.  What do others think?
>
>I'd be willing to do the change, as well.

Are there any ports (using MASTERDIR, maybe, to build out of another ports
dir, or the MASTERDIR port itself) where this could break something? I would
recommend against using a script to do it. 

But a grep and manual changes? I think it's a good idea.

-- 
Alan Eldridge
#!perl -pl      # This kenny-filter is virus-free as long as you don't copy it
$p=3-2*/[^\W\dmpf_]/i;s.[a-z]{$p}.vec($f=join('',$p-1?chr(sub{$_[0]*9+$_[1]*3+
$_[2]}->(map{/p|f/i+/f/i}split//,$&)+97):('m',p,f)[map{((ord$&)%32-1)/$_%3}(9,
3,1)]),5,1)='`'lt$&;$f.eig;                                # Jan-Pieter Cornet

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