Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 15:20:17 -0500 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Randy Pratt <rpratt1950@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: Question about portlint WARN/FATAL errors Message-ID: <200407101520.17278.linimon@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <20040710160201.77ab4eaa.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> References: <20040710160201.77ab4eaa.rpratt1950@earthlink.net>
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On Saturday 10 July 2004 03:02 pm, Randy Pratt wrote: > I ran portlint on quite a few existing ports and was quite surprised > at the amount of WARN and FATAL errors that existed. portlint is a heuristic tool. It is quite possible for it to report false positives. Also, some ports do things in an "unapproved" way simply to work around restrictions/bugs in bsd.*.mk. Having said that, there are a large number of ports that just have bugs. The problem comes in determining which are which :-) mcl
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