cvs commit: ports/mail/meta1 Makefile

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 05:46:22AM +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote:
> 
> > > > > | +MANUAL_PACKAGE_BUILD=	needs hostname
> > > > 
> > > > Why does the package need a hostname?  Often this is a bug, and either
> > > > way the preferred solution is to fix it so it can be packaged.
> > > 
> > > Ports failed in configure state,
> > > as the empty hostname breaks some sanity checks.
> > 
> > Yes, but why does the configure script need a hostname?  In most cases
> > it shouldn't be requiring one.
> 
> This ist not most cases.
> Some programs need to find out how the "hostname" command works.
> If they get an empty result, this will fail.
> 
> So rather them having pointyhat build bad packages,
> I decided that users are better off without them.

Sounds trivial to patch the configure script to skip the check since
we know exactly how FreeBSD's hostname command works.

Kris