Need help with a port

Nikola Lečić nikola.lecic at anthesphoria.net
Fri Dec 18 05:51:23 UTC 2009


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On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:58:21 -0600
Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com> wrote:
 
> I'm the port maintainer for security/barnyard2.  I submitted a port 
> upgrade a while ago, but the committer asked me to make a change
> before he would approve it.  I'm not sure what to do.
> 
> The source code, when it's extracted, sets the perms on install-sh to 
> r--r--r.  This causes an error during the build.  The way I tried to 
> resolve the issue was by adding this to the Makefile:
> 
> +pre-install:
> +        ${CHMOD} 744 ${WRKSRC}/install-sh
> +
> 
> The committer said that was the wrong way to do it, that I should
> edit the configure file.  But the configure file doesn't do anything
> to the install-sh file at all.

I think this should actually be ${CHMOD} ${BINMODE}. I have a similar
thing in one of my ports: textproc/teckit. Besides install-sh, the
permissions of configure script itself had to be altered.

A simple grep for CHMOD and WRKSRC reveals a heap of ports doing such
things in ${WRKSRC}...

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