Flaw in print/acroread7 (was: Re: [ru@FreeBSD.org: [patch] mixed i386/amd64 ports semi-broken])

[Alexander Leidinger]

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:52:40 +0200
Ruslan Ermilov <ru at freebsd.org> wrote:

> I hit this problem attempting to install print/acroread7 on amd64.
> It depends on emulators/linux_base-8, which rewrites ${ARCH} from
> "amd64" to "i386".  Unfortunately, when linux_base-8 is processed
> in a submake, e.g., when I run "make fetch-recursive" in
> print/acroread7, no rewrite of ${ARCH} actually happens because
> bsd.port.mk mistakenly thinks that ${ARCH} can never change, so
> it's getting passed ARCH already set to "amd64", and as a highest
> priority command-line type make(1) variable.  This results in
> ${MD5_FILE} improperly set to distinfo.amd64 which doesn't exist.
> Here's a fix:
> 
> %%%
> Index: bsd.port.mk

For this particular problem: acroread7 should set ARCH like every other
linux port does (better: every other tested linux port should do) to
i386. But there are more flaws in Trevor's ports and I decided to let
other people "handle" it (e.g. mezz has some patches for acroread7
which would let the port behave more to the rules of the porters
handbook).

Bye,
Alexander.

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