lang/nimrod doesn't compile anything [SOLVED]

[Matthew Pherigo]

Definitely! I'm writing the maintainer today, along with another bug
I've encountered. (Though, the problem may actually be in the app
itself and not in the port.)

--Matt

> On Mar 19, 2014, at 3:45 AM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:32:48 -0500, Matthew Pherigo wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> After some googling that I didn't think to do before,
>> I was able to fix it! For the future problem-sufferers,
>> here's what's going on. Apparently, does not look for
>> its configuration file in anything other than /etc/nimrod.cfg.
>> A simple ln -s fixed it.
>
> That surely is an intermediate solution, but far from
> perfect or even "accepted". The /etc directory is reserved
> for system files (of the OS), and nimrod is an additional
> package, so according to "man hier", it should have its
> configuration files in /usr/local/etc. Either should an
> environmental variable or a command line option be present,
> but it will probably be a better idea to write to the
> maintainer and ask him to fix this bug.
>
> The symlink you've created is not recorded by any means
> of packaging tools, so if you update or remove things,
> it will be left, possibly causing trouble later on which
> nobody can imagine at the moment.
>
> What you're seeing seems to be a typical "Linuxism". :-)
>
>
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> Polytropon
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