cvs commit: ports/sysutils/tmux Makefile

[Sahil Tandon]

On Jun 17, 2011, at 1:59 PM, "b. f." <bf1783 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Look, I don't mean to sound overly-exercised about this particular
> commit -- that's easy to do in email when there is a lack of other
> verbal and non-verbal cues --- of course it doesn't _need_ to be
> reverted, although it would be better if it were.  Nor did I mean to
> suggest that in this particular instance you were arguing for sweeping
> changes. I was merely pointing out the flaws in the reasoning behind
> the change, and the undesirability of making many such unnecessary ad
> hoc changes of this kind over time.  The real issue (since this
> problem has come up in multiple PRs, and email and forum threads, I
> don't enclose it in quotes) is that users (including committers -- the
> person who filed the original PR behind this change is a src
> committer, and others have made similar mistakes), are being misled by
> examples in the base system sources into abuses of __MAKE_CONF, and
> are breaking port builds.  I have previously suggested adding comments
> to /src/share/examples/etc/make.conf to point out this problem, but no
> one took up my suggestion, and I can't do it myself because I don't
> have a src commit bit.  I guess that I'll have to try again.

OK; wish you better luck this time, perhaps via someone who lurks in this thread and has the appropriate bits + shares your motivation.