ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk,v 1.517 2005/09/15 12:24:33 question

[Roman Neuhauser]

# ringworm01 at gmail.com / 2005-09-25 16:37:42 -0700:
> On Sunday 25 September 2005 16:37, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> > Michael C. Shultz píše v ne 25. 09. 2005 v 15:59 -0700:
> > > Is it possible/desirable to modify bsd.port.mk so that
> > > ports marked IGNORE or BROKEN exit with an error
> > > code, like "make check-conflicts" does if there is a conflict?
> > >
> > > Right now there is a problem with sysutils/portmanager
> > > not properly handling ports marked BROKEN because
> > > make seems to exit with no error.  I could add parsing
> > > Makefiles for the term "BROKEN" to portmanager, but that
> > > seems a shame, because untill now portmanager has never
> > > needed to snoop the insides of Makefiles.
> >
> > what about running "make -V BROKEN" ?
> 
> That still seems to return no error code.
 
    You need to check the *output*. It it's not empty, the port is
    marked broken.

> I'm no perl programmer, but I tried adding this to
> bsd.port.mk just below check-conflicts:

    Makefiles are not written in Perl.

> It works for my purposes, but I've never tried submitting anything on the 
> ports infrastructure, do you think this would fly?

    It wouldn't, because it would break lots of code.

> It sure would make my life easier, because all I would have to do is
> test "make check-broken" target.

    make -V BROKEN will do the same. Just test whether there was any
    output.

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