REPOST--math/atlas error in Make.top prevents building it via portinstall

[Scott Bennett]

     Several days ago I posted the following and have gotten no response
thus far.
     The math/atlas package atlas-3.6.0 has an error in ATLAS/Make.top that
wipes out libraries just unpacked by tar that are needed to build the port.
The atlas errata web page describes the error and states that deleting
line 215 from ATLAS/Make.out will prevent the deletions from occurring.
Unfortunately, portinstall unpacks the .tar.bz2 archive and immediately
begins the build without providing an opportunity to fix Make.top before
it gets used, so the libraries get unpacked and then wiped out right away
before the build really gets going.
     Does anyone know how I can build math/atlas while doing all the other
things that portinstall takes care of?  Does anyone know why the port
owner put this into the FreeBSD 6.1 ports tree without trying to build it
first?  Surely the owner would have noticed if he/she had tried to build
it.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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