cvs commit: ports/graphics/djvulibre Makefile ports/textproc/wordnet Makefile

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:57:05 -0500, Mikhail Teterin  
<Mikhail.Teterin at murex.com> wrote:

>>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-depend.html#AEN1934
>
> Your link provides an outdated example. Thanks for bringing it up. The  
> ability
> to use regular expressions exists since:
>
> revision 1.439
> date: 2003/02/12 05:15:03;  author: knu;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -3
> Fix comment.  LIB_DEPENDS can contain extended regular expressions.
>
> That was 2.5 years ago. Since then, there appeared special tricks in
> bsd.progs.mk, like:
>
> revision 1.491
> date: 2004/06/10 07:30:19;  author: kris;  state: Exp;  lines: +29 -30
> [...]
> * Support glob expressions in USE_GETTEXT to allow more flexibility
>   in the face of future gratuitous library version bumps by the gettext
>   developers [3]:
>
>   USE_GETTEXT=yEs   # Works as before (case-insensitive)
>   USE_GETTEXT=[5-7] # Accepts any of those libintl.so.x versions
>                     # in the LIB_DEPENDS
> [...]
>
> Doc-team (CC-ed) should fix the documentation:
>
> 	-There shall be no regular expressions in this variable.
> 	+lib can be an extended regular expression
>
>> BTW: portmgr, want to take care of this thread? End it now is better  
>> than  
>> later.
>
> Jeremy, all technical arguments against my idea, which you brought up
> yesterday on the gnome@ (viz. non-existent potential for API/ABI
> incompatibilities), were wrong. And now you are appealing to  
> "authority"?..
> Do not turn this into an ego contest.

No, just wanted this thread to be end. I didn't say which portmgr should  
be pick that is right, did I?

Calm down, Mikhail.

Cheers,
Mezz

> 	-mi


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