Re: Speaking of broken ports....

[Peter Hessler <yodadoa_(_at_)_yahoo_(_dot_)_com>]

The pkg_add IS quite obvious, BUT, say for example you build a package
that requires pth.  You just go into that port's dir, and do a make. 
The port you're building notices that you don't have pth, and it gets
it and installs it all nicely, then goes about its buisness of building
the port you want.  The pkg_add message for pth went by 3000+ lines
ago.  In that case you're screwed until you read other docs for it. 
Especialy if you are building at the console, and you don't have the
ability to scroll up.

  Is there a way that the ports can send all of those messages to a
buffer and just pipe the buffer to more (or less, lets make it a
variable) at the end of the build so you can see things like that (add
pth to ldconfig, add /usr/local/bin to your path, jump on your right
foot, etc)? 


--- Marc Espie <espie_(_at_)_schutzenberger_(_dot_)_liafa_(_dot_)_jussieu_(_dot_)_fr> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 07:41:08PM -0700, Peter Valchev wrote:
> > > Thanks for the help, it works! ... not that it will
> > > get a lot of use. Heh, There should be a note after
> > > gaim is done making, When I did make install, i had
> > > not idea it was using pth as a dep, so I didn't know
> > > to add that. Think we could work that little message
> > > into the makefile in the next ports tree.
> > 
> > Yes, this is a bit non-obvious.
> > 
> 
> ??? pth's pkg_add says to add pth to ldconfig in a very explicit way.
> If you don't read what your system says to you, or don't trust it,
> you might miss it, but it's QUITE obvious.
> 


=====
Peter Hessler
<yodadoa_(_at_)_yahoo_(_dot_)_com>

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