mozilla-firebird builds bogus plist
Gregory Bond
gnb at itga.com.au
Wed Jul 23 22:16:12 PDT 2003
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Originator: Gregory Bond
>Organization: ITG Australia Limited
>Confidential: no
>Synopsis: mozilla-firebird builds bogus plist
>Severity: serious
>Priority: low
>Category: ports
>Class: sw-bug
>Release: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD hellcat.itga.com.au 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #16: Thu Jul 24 11:25:45 EST 2003 toor at grollo.itga.com.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HELLCAT i386
>Description:
www/mozilla-firebird port builds a bogus plist with only 4 entries,
so making a package fails and deinstalling the port doesn't deinstall
the whole thing.
>How-To-Repeat:
cd /usr/ports/www/mozilla-firebird && make install && cat work/plist
After installing, running "make generate-plist" creates a reasonable
plist file.
>Fix:
I don't understand all the jiggerypokery going on here, but it seems like
the "make install" is doing this:
rm -rf /usr/X11R6/lib/firebird (from the pre-install target)
build the work/plist from /usr/X11R6/lib/firebird plus a bit of manual adding
(from the cons-plist target)
install into /usr/X11R6/lib/firebird (from the install target)
which looks like totally the wrong order.
Having a look at the CVS log for Mk/bsd.port.mk rev 1.455 indicates this
port might need to be re-worked. Perhaps specify a static plist?
In the meantime, the following workaround seems to get by:
cd /usr/ports/www/mozilla-firebird
make install
make generate-plist
<edit the Makefile to remove "cons-plist" as a dependency for
generate-plist at the bottom of the Makefile>
make deinstall
make package
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