cvs commit: ports/graphics/djvulibre Makefile ports/textproc/wordnet Makefile

[Ceri Davies]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 03:57:05PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> > 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-depend.html#AEN1934
> 
> Your link provides an outdated example. Thanks for bringing it up. The ability 
> to use regular expressions exists since:
> 
> revision 1.439
> date: 2003/02/12 05:15:03;  author: knu;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -3
> Fix comment.  LIB_DEPENDS can contain extended regular expressions.
> 
> That was 2.5 years ago. Since then, there appeared special tricks in 
> bsd.progs.mk, like:
> 
> revision 1.491
> date: 2004/06/10 07:30:19;  author: kris;  state: Exp;  lines: +29 -30
> [...]
> * Support glob expressions in USE_GETTEXT to allow more flexibility
>   in the face of future gratuitous library version bumps by the gettext
>   developers [3]:
> 
>   USE_GETTEXT=yEs   # Works as before (case-insensitive)
>   USE_GETTEXT=[5-7] # Accepts any of those libintl.so.x versions
>                     # in the LIB_DEPENDS
> [...]
> 
> Doc-team (CC-ed) should fix the documentation:
> 
> 	-There shall be no regular expressions in this variable.
> 	+lib can be an extended regular expression

Don't drag us into the argument.  Someone from portmgr can either fix it
themselves or let us know what needs doing.  Since at least one member
of portmgr is on the doc team, that's taken care of as far as I'm
concerned.

Disclaimer: I have not been following, nor do I wish to back up and
read, the argument.

Ceri
-- 
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former.			  -- Einstein (attrib.)
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