ports/184296: devel/kBuild will not install on DragonFlyBSD due to hardcoded values in Makefile

[John Marino]

The following reply was made to PR ports/184296; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Marino <freebsd.contact at marino.st>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, dlorch at gmail.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/184296: devel/kBuild will not install on DragonFlyBSD due
 to hardcoded values in Makefile
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:08:22 +0100

 I think it should handled in ports.
 1) There are many ports that have similar code
 2) FreeBSD understands DPorts exists and that DragonFly now uses ports,
 and that ports benefits from having multiple platforms use it, as well
 as the additional ports developers it brings.
 3) Related to 2), especially when the changes are trivial, the ports are
 being modified to support multiple platforms.
 
 The case is the opposite; hundreds of patches and diffs in DPorts need
 to be pushed to ports (in many case they solve problems on FreeBSD too,
 not just DragonFly support), but there simply isn't the manpower to do
 it all at once.
 
 This is a trivial one-liner that has zero effect on FreeBSD and fixes
 DragonFly, so yes it should be changed at ports level.
 
 John