Strange behavior of 'exists' function. Need help with Makefile.

[Yevgen Krapiva]

Thanks to all,

Scot Hetzel have found the reason, I had to add the following line
before target definitions:

.include <bsd.port.pre.mk>

And yes, tomcat6 Makefile also had this line but I've missed it :(

On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 09:56 +0200, Yevgen Krapiva wrote:

> Thanks Ulrich,
> 
> I've discovered the following issue:
> 
> !!!    This example works:  !!!
> 
> MY_FILE= /usr/local/share/openjsip/conf/proxy.properties
> 
> do-check: 
> .for f in ${MY_FILE}
> . if !exists(${f})
> @${ECHO_MSG} ">> File ${f} doesn't exists"
> . else
> @${ECHO_MSG} ">> File ${f} exists"
> . endif
> .endfor
> 
> !!!  And this one doesn't: !!!
> 
> MY_FILE= proxy.properties
> 
> do-check: 
> .for f in ${MY_FILE}
> . if !exists(${DATADIR}/conf/${f})
> @${ECHO_MSG} ">> File ${DATADIR}/conf/${f} doesn't exists"
> . else
> @${ECHO_MSG} ">> File ${DATADIR}/conf/${f} exists"
> . endif
> .endfor
> 
> 
> So, I will use the first method... But anyway I would like to know why
> the second
> example doesn't work.
> 
> P.S. The second example was copied from tomcat6 port :\
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 17:11 +0100, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: 
> 
> > On Mon, 28.12.2009 at 10:13:42 +0200, Yevgen Krapiva wrote:
> > > Hi guys, 
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to create my own port. I'm stucked with the following
> > > Makefile:
> > > 
> > > PORTNAME=      openjsip
> > > PORTVERSION=   0.0.4
> > > ...
> > > ...
> > > MY_FILE=       proxy.properties
> > > 
> > > do-check: 
> > > 
> > > 	#FIRST TEST
> > > .	if !exists(/usr/local/share/openjsip/conf/proxy.properties)
> > > 		@${ECHO_MSG} ">> /usr/local/share/openjsip/conf/proxy.properties
> > > doesn't exist"
> > > .	else
> > > 		@${ECHO_MSG} ">> /usr/local/share/openjsip/conf/proxy.properties
> > > exists"
> > > .	endif
> > > 	
> > > 	#SECOND TEST
> > > 	@${ECHO_MSG} ">> DATADIR=${DATADIR}"
> > > 
> > > .for f in ${MY_FILE}
> > > .	if !exists(${DATADIR}/conf/${f})
> > > 		@${ECHO_MSG} ">> File ${DATADIR}/conf/${f} doesn't exist"
> > > .	else
> > > 		@${ECHO_MSG} ">> File ${DATADIR}/conf/${f} exists"
> > > .	endif
> > > .endfor
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to make script to check the existence of proxy.properties
> > > file.
> > > The first test works well while to other one (with the use of 'for')
> > > doesn't.
> > > Can you help me, I don't understand why the second test fails.
> > 
> > First of all, please do not use "empty" lines inside a Makefile, it is
> > not an imperative language and care must be taken so that the parser
> > gets things right.
> > 
> > Doing a minimal test, I cannot confirm your findings, perhaps you should
> > try to trim down your example and see where it breaks or starts to work.
> > 
> > Example:
> > 
> > FILES=/etc/rc.conf /etc/doener.conf
> > 
> > all:
> > .for f in ${FILES}
> > .if !exists(${f})
> > 	@echo "${f} does not exist"
> > .else
> > 	@echo "${f} does exist"
> > .endif
> > .endfor
> > 
> > % make all
> > /etc/rc.conf does exist
> > /etc/doener.conf does not exist
> > 
> > hth,
> > Uli
> >