From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Nov 18 17:52:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA04920 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 17:52:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA04894 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 17:51:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id CAA03578; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 02:51:24 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id CAA19868; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 02:51:23 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id BAA03940; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 01:57:05 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611190057.BAA03940@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Are broken ports useful? To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 01:57:05 +0100 (MET) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co" at "Nov 18, 96 06:13:26 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co wrote: > I have a port for cim, a simula compiler, it compiles great and the test > script runs OK, but when I try to install it the script fails when it is > going to strip it due to "wrong format". > I am using fbsd 2.1.5, with the old gcc, should I leave it like this to > see if it works under 2.2, or should I remove the strip portion from the > makefile? The latter. It has been decided (back in time) that using -s when trying to install a script executable is considered a usage error, hence install fails in this situation. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)