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

[Erwin Lansing]

Ghees, what a CC list on this one. That alone should have been a warning
that I should not meddle with this thread.

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 11:09:43PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> 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 Your link provides an outdated example.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.
> 
Easy, easy. Let's not get our tempers get away with us. Let me allow
myself to reformulate what Mikhail means: "Someone should submit a patch
to our doc team that..."

Now please everybody, please disperse, nothing to see. And someone
please create a doc PR with a patch.

Thank you,
-erwin


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Erwin Lansing

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