svn commit: r410453 - in head/math/fityk: . files

[wenheping]

> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 08:10:10 +0000
> From: danfe at FreeBSD.org
> To: wenheping2000 at hotmail.com
> CC: ports-committers at freebsd.org; svn-ports-all at freebsd.org; svn-ports-head at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: svn commit: r410453 - in head/math/fityk: . files
> 
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 09:22:54AM +0800, wenheping wrote:
> > In the whole portstree, there are many mute installations such as "@cd
> > ${WRKSRC} && ${COPYTREE_SHARE}",
> 
> These are wrong.  Unfortunately, there're lots of bugs in the Makefiles
> throughout the Ports Tree.
> 
> > and there are many 'not mute' installations such as "cd ${WRKSRC} &&
> > ${COPYTREE_SHARE}" too.
> 
> These are correct.
> 
> > I did not find 'not mute installation" is wrong in Porter's Handbook.
> 
> It might not be articulated loud enough, but it's pretty obvious once you
> think about it: muted commands won't appear in the build log, which makes
> it harder to debug and fix any issues.
> 
> mkdir's are often muted because they do not have the same "debug value" as
> installation commands, but all cp/COPYTREE_SHARE/ln/etc. commands should
> not be muted.  This is pretty common knowledge in our community, I find it
> strange that you've never heard of it.

To me mkdir has the same debug-value as cp and I judge the "common knowledge in our community"  by Porter's Handbook  or portlint.


> 
> ./danfe
>