ports/150235: sysutils/smartmontools build system bug

[Garrett Wollman]

The following reply was made to PR ports/150235; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman at FreeBSD.org>
To: Alex Samorukov <samm at os2.kiev.ua>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/150235: sysutils/smartmontools build system bug
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 14:12:09 -0400

 <<On Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:47:40 +0200, Alex Samorukov <samm at os2.kiev.ua> said:
 
 > 1) Source tree needs to be exist to build smartmontools with cissio 
 > support. It will build w/o source tree, but cissio will be disabled by 
 > configure script.
 
 That's a bug.  NOTHING in userland should compile against the source
 tree.  If you need a header file that's not installed, work with a src
 developer to get that header installed.
 
 > 2) Out of sync sources is not a problem of smartmontools, but user. 
 
 No, it's a bug.  *Nothing else cares*, nor is it legitimate to care.
 /usr/src often does not match the running kernel, particularly in the
 middle of an upgrade cycle.
 
 > Don`t do this and and there will be no problems.
 
 That's not a reasonable answer.
 
 -GAWollman