Portlint complains about %%FOO%% in PLIST_FILES

[Yuri Pankov]

Rainer Hurling wrote:
> Yesterday I committed net/hblock [r556099] after changing the patch to 
> PLIST_FILES (instead of pkg-plist with only two files) against the 
> suggestion of the submitter.The line in question is:
> 
> PLIST_FILES=bin/${PORTNAME} %%MANPAGES%%man/man1/hblock.1.gz
> 
> 
> I made this change because it allows the port to build and install 
> correctly in all combinations of OPTIONS.
> 
> With the use of %%MANPAGES%%% in PLIST_FILES one can selectively enable 
> and disable the building of manpages.
> 
> The maintainer of net/hblock informs me about a problem with using 
> %%MANPAGES%% in PLIST_FILES. I don't know why I did not notice the 
> message from 'portlint -AC' before:
> 
> FATAL: PLIST_FILES: files cannot contain %%FOO%% variables.  Use make 
> variables and logic instead
> 
> 
> Is it possibly correct to use %%MANPAGES%% in PLIST_FILES and only 
> portlint can't handle it?
> 
> Is there an alternative to switching back to pkg-plist file?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance for clarification and maybe a suggestion for correct 
> usage.

See 5.13.3.11 in 
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-options.html, 
i.e. use MANPAGES_PLIST_FILES=.
See x11/swaybg/Makefile for example.