svn commit: r481915 - in head/sysutils/ipmitool: . files

Sean Bruno sbruno at freebsd.org
Fri Oct 12 21:45:15 UTC 2018



On 10/12/18 3:36 PM, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 02:55:38PM -0600, Sean Bruno wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 10/12/18 2:10 PM, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
>>> So, you want us to add something like "if the variable EXTRA_PATCHES is
>>> already set before, instead of using =, use +="?
>>>
>>> I don't really see it happening, we are not going to state all the
>>> possible cases, the porter's handbook would end up being ISO9001 and 50k
>>> pages long, we assume that you know make(1), so that when you add a
>>> variable, you actually look for it in the Makefile to see if it is not
>>> already set.
>>
>> I don't think I'm asking for that.
>>
>> I think I'm asking for "we should have the example be a += instead of a
>> =" because of the DOCS variable and how it behaves.  EXTRA_PATCHES
>> wasn't in use in this example before I added the openssl1.1.1 patch
>> abomination, but I guess, DOCS implicitly means its always in use.
> 
> The example is GENERIC.  THIS port has a DOCS option that sets
> EXTRA_PATCHES.
> 

Ah, gotcha.

I looked around in the handbook to see if I overlooked this behavior.  I
didn't see it in there, but I may have missed it.

sean

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