ports/63545: Today's portupgrade of linux-flashplugin to linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_1 breaks flash for linux-opera on FreeBSD-4.9Stable

[Jeremy Messenger]

The following reply was made to PR ports/63545; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net>
To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <ports at brandon.dvalentine.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, stacey at vickiandstacey.com
Subject: Re: ports/63545: Today's portupgrade of linux-flashplugin to linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_1 breaks flash for linux-opera on FreeBSD-4.9Stable
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 17:08:55 -0600

 On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:50:54 -0600, Brandon D. Valentine 
 <ports at brandon.dvalentine.com> wrote:
 
 > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 04:34:26PM -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
 >> Actually, you can't do the define PLUGINSDIR because there's no "?" in 
 >> it.
 >>
 >> PLUGINSDIR?=
 >
 > Hmm, you're right.  I will include that change in the patch I am working
 > on.
 >
 > The problem I'm running into is I don't seem to get variable expansion
 > to work inside my conditional.
 >
 > This works:
 >
 > .for f in ${LIBFILES}
 >     @${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/${f} ${PREFIX}/lib/linux-flashplugin6
 > .if exists(/usr/local/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins)
 > 	echo "Hi! I'm inside the if statement!"
 >     @${LN} -sf ${PREFIX}/lib/linux-flashplugin6/${f}
 > ${PREFIX}/${PLUGINSDIR}
 > .endif
 > .endfor
 >
 > This doesn't:
 >
 > .for f in ${LIBFILES}
 >     @${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/${f} ${PREFIX}/lib/linux-flashplugin6
 > .if exists(${PREFIX}/${PLUGINSDIR})
 > 	echo "Hi! I'm inside the if statement!"
 >     @${LN} -sf ${PREFIX}/lib/linux-flashplugin6/${f}
 > ${PREFIX}/${PLUGINSDIR}
 > .endif
 > .endfor
 >
 > And I'm not sure why it doesn't work.  At any rate, I have a solution
 > and with a bit more testing I'll submit a new patch.
 
 Yeah, that puzzled me.. I tried to add the quote and others; it still 
 doesn't work. Maybe, it's a bug or just a missing feature.
 
 Cheers,
 Mezz
 
 > Sorry for the inconvenience,
 >
 > Brandon D. Valentine
 
 
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