cvs commit: ports/www/webkit-gtk2 Makefile ports/www/webkit-gtk2/files patch-add-gzip patch-webkitnetworkresponse

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:27:51PM +0100, Koop Mast wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 20:49 +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > Weird, PR does not say what is exactly broken with flex(1) from the
> > base.  Could you enlighten us why the port cannot be patched so
> > third-party alternative from ports for existing tool in the base is
> > required?  Thanks.
> 
> First the webkit port already depended on flex. Since the configure
> script wants version at least 2.5.33, we need to depend on the port. The

OK, so that gets us to the next question: what particular features of
v2.5.33 break this port against flex v2.5.4 (version we have in base)?

> problem is detection of the flex binary. Without the patch mentioned in
> the pr, the port system can pick up the base flex, if the port flex
> isn't installed. So tell the port to look in localbase for the port
> flex. 

I can read and understand that patch.  What I was asking about if trivial
patch to configure script/source code could remedy the problem instead of
pulling extra dependency, just because it's newer than version we have in
the base.

./danfe