Flaw in print/acroread7 (was: Re: [ru@FreeBSD.org: [patch] mixed i386/amd64 ports semi-broken])

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:10:19 -0600, Alexander Leidinger  
<Alexander at Leidinger.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:52:40 +0200
> Ruslan Ermilov <ru at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> I hit this problem attempting to install print/acroread7 on amd64.
>> It depends on emulators/linux_base-8, which rewrites ${ARCH} from
>> "amd64" to "i386".  Unfortunately, when linux_base-8 is processed
>> in a submake, e.g., when I run "make fetch-recursive" in
>> print/acroread7, no rewrite of ${ARCH} actually happens because
>> bsd.port.mk mistakenly thinks that ${ARCH} can never change, so
>> it's getting passed ARCH already set to "amd64", and as a highest
>> priority command-line type make(1) variable.  This results in
>> ${MD5_FILE} improperly set to distinfo.amd64 which doesn't exist.
>> Here's a fix:
>>
>> %%%
>> Index: bsd.port.mk

<snip>
> But there are more flaws in Trevor's ports and I decided to let
> other people "handle" it (e.g. mezz has some patches for acroread7
> which would let the port behave more to the rules of the porters
> handbook).

ports/90319 , I doubt that I will ever finish with it full for other slave  
ports like language ports. All that language stuff have made my insterest  
lost. If Adobe decides to create a language pack or use gettext stuff  
(share/locale) then my insterest will be back. If anyone is willing to  
take over, then I believe that you won't be need Trevor's approve since he  
hasn't reply for over a month and even there have several PRs for him  
either.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Bye,
> Alexander.


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