ports/59070: [PATCH] bsd.port.mk: unexpected features of PORTDOCS

[Edwin Groothuis]

The following reply was made to PR ports/59070; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin at mavetju.org>
To: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/59070: [PATCH] bsd.port.mk: unexpected features of PORTDOCS
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 14:18:44 +1100

 On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:42:42AM +0100, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
 > - Every package that defines PORTDOCS gets
 >   `@unexec rmdir ${DOCSDIR} 2>/dev/null || true'
 >   added to the packing list. The documetation states to define PORTDOCS only if
 >   documentation is installed, but for example port net/ngrep does:
 > 
 >   PORTDOCS=	BUGS CHANGES README README.pcre USAGE
 
 Hmm... that's my fault, I didn't read the bsd.port.mk.
 
 I think that PORTDOCS should only be checked in bsd.port.mk if
 NOPORTDOCS is not set. The reason for it? It adds it automaticly,
 so it should check if all pre-requesites[sp] for adding them are
 met.
 
 Edwin
 
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