Porting question

[Matthew Seaman]

Larry Rosenman wrote:
> I've asked portmgr before, but still haven't found a decent way to do what I
> want, so let me post this publicly.
> 
> I want to make the sysutils/lsof port fail early with a decent message if
> the kernel sources aren't loaded on the system.
> 
> The most common question/problem report I get is when the lsof configure
> script fails due to a lack of the system sources. 
> 
> Ideas on how to do this cleanly in the port Makefile?
> 

Can't you do something like this?

pre-everything:
	@if [ ! -f /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh ] ; then         \
	    ${ECHO_MSG} "==> Error: Can't find kernel sources" ; \
	    ${FALSE} ;                                           \
	fi

(completely untested...)

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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