Re: Ports breakage?

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

walt wrote:

> I just tried to reinstall the Pine port and got some really dumb errors
> about patches not applying cleanly.  This is a nonsense error which appears
> to be caused by looking for files in wrong directories, but I'm just too
> tired right now to track it down :o(
>
> I notice that bsd.ports.mk was updated by FreeBSD this morning to allow
> for gcc34.  This seems a likely cause for my errors, but of course I'm
> not certain.
>
> Could someone who is fully awake confirm this problem for me -- and
> perhaps fix it, too?  ;o)

walt,

please read the following thread in commits@.

http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/commits/2004-09/index.html#00569

The reason is that the new OpenBSD patch command has a different meaning 
for the -b option (which is used by ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk). Andreas 
Hauser has written a patch that makes it work again:

http://ftp.fortunaty.net/DragonFly/inofficial/patches/Mk::bsd.port.mk-patch-suffix.patch

Regards,
Sascha

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