HEADS UP: Latest round of bsd.*.mk changes

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 03:42, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 03:29:54AM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps we need something like USE_GETTEXT_BUILD similar to
> > USE_PERL5_BUILD.  Whatever is the choice, please submit a PR so we can
> > track this.  Thanks.
> 
> Is that really necessary?  i.e. does it buy a significant improvement
> over using the explicit BUILD_DEPENDS in the relative few ports that
> use it?

No, after a good night's rest, it's probably superfluous since a
executable dependency isn't likely to change anytime soon.

> 
> I'm becoming concerned at the proliferation of variables being added
> to b.p.m - the trend towards macro'izing every conceivable shell
> command used by ports is another one I'm uncomfortable with (why?).

There are a few reasons I feel this is a good thing.

1. Consistency.  All Makefiles use base system commands in the same way.

2. Replace-ability.  It is trivial to fix ports if executables change
location.

3. Security.  By having macros that point to fully-qualified paths, we
eliminate the chance or trojan horses in people's paths.

Joe

> 
> Kris
-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	marcus at FreeBSD.org
gnome at FreeBSD.org
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