cvs commit: ports/www/p5-RTx-Statistics Makefile

[Matthew Seaman]

Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2009-Apr-13 12:35:05 +0100, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
>> The patch Edwin applied before broke under QAT testing because the
>> www/rt38 port layout is now completely different to www/rt36 and
>> earlier, breaking the dependency checking. www/rt36 is on the old
>> layout, so should be fine.  Even so, internal changes in rt38 code
>> mean that the various graphs this port would have produced no longer
>> work correctly, so best to leave it depending on www/rt36 instead.
> 
> Is it worth explicitly making it conflict with www/rt38?  At present,
> if you already have rt38 installed, p5-RTx-Statistics will build and
> then fail to install or work with a non-obvious error message.  A
> CONFLICTS line could explicitly explain what the problem is.
> 

Yes.  That would be nice. Unfortunately it won't work: you'ld still see exactly
the same output -- the conflicts message between rt36 and rt38 when rt36 is
attempted to be installed as a BUILD_DEPENDS of p5-RTx-Statistics.  It's a rather
a shame that CONFLICTS is not applied until just before the install phase for any
port -- sometimes that's right and proper, other times it results in a wasted
build of a port that will refuse to be installed.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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