Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 14:29:19 -0400 From: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ugly perl module install Message-ID: <20040809182919.GB27989@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <200408092020.14524.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <20040809173201.GA27989@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <200408092020.14524.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 08:20:11PM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Monday 09 August 2004 19:32, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Before I go state in an article that we have an ugly port, I thought > > I'd mention it to the maintainer (ports@) > > Ports@ is no maintainer, it's a mailinglist. ratbastard/usr/ports/net-mgmt/p5-Cflow;grep -i maintainer Makefile MAINTAINER= ports@FreeBSD.org ratbastard/usr/ports/net-mgmt/p5-Cflow; So, I wrote the maintainer. :-) > > Surely we could, say, include a patch to net-mgmt/p5-Cflow to make the > > port check for $PREFIX/lib/libft.a rather than the ../../lib/libft.a? > > > > If not, I'll document the ugliness in this instance and make a cranky > > comment about how knowing how to actually build software is still > > useful these days, and these kids don't know how good they have it > > with "configure" and so on... ;-) > > A working patch/Makefile change/whatever, submitted via send-pr would be more > useful. It seems you already have spent some time figuring the problem out, > why not provide a fix? If just patching the source like this is legal, then I'll do that. I don't generally go near the ports, and hence don't keep up with the standard way of doing things (other than the user perspective, of course.) ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org "I'm sorry, but 'Social Darwinism' is no excuse for killing all of your co-workers." -- Ivan Brunetti http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/
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