ugly perl module install

[Michael W. Lucas]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 08:20:11PM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Monday 09 August 2004 19:32, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Before I go state in an article that we have an ugly port, I thought
> > I'd mention it to the maintainer (ports@)
> 
> Ports@ is no maintainer, it's a mailinglist.

ratbastard/usr/ports/net-mgmt/p5-Cflow;grep -i maintainer Makefile 
MAINTAINER=     ports at FreeBSD.org
ratbastard/usr/ports/net-mgmt/p5-Cflow;

So, I wrote the maintainer.  :-)

> > Surely we could, say, include a patch to net-mgmt/p5-Cflow to make the
> > port check for $PREFIX/lib/libft.a rather than the ../../lib/libft.a?
> >
> > If not, I'll document the ugliness in this instance and make a cranky
> > comment about how knowing how to actually build software is still
> > useful these days, and these kids don't know how good they have it
> > with "configure" and so on...  ;-)
> 
> A working patch/Makefile change/whatever, submitted via send-pr would be more 
> useful. It seems you already have spent some time figuring the problem out, 
> why not provide a fix?

If just patching the source like this is legal, then I'll do that.

I don't generally go near the ports, and hence don't keep up with the
standard way of doing things (other than the user perspective, of
course.)

==ml

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