Re: pkg/48033 (net/wireshark uses wrong python version)

[Jörn Clausen <joern.clausen%uni-bielefeld.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/48033; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Clausen?= <joern.clausen%uni-bielefeld.de@localhost>
To: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Cc: NetBSD bugtracking <gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: pkg/48033 (net/wireshark uses wrong python version)
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:18:52 +0200

 On 11.07.13 22:24, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 05:00:47PM +0200, Jörn Clausen wrote:
 >> I have no clever idea how to substitute Solaris "which" with
 >> something that behaves like other OSes, nor how to rewrite the
 >> Makefile to achieve the same selection in a more portable way.
 >
 > I thought something like
 >    (elinks source>  tmp&&  mv tmp target) || whatever the alternate is
 > might work. Can you come up with something from this?
 >   Thomas
 
 Why not simply remove the tests?
 
 faq.txt: $(srcdir)/faq.py
        $(AM_V_GEN)$(srcdir)/faq.py >$@.tmp && \
        ( elinks -dump -dump-width 72 -no-numbering -no-references < $@.tmp > 
 $@ || \
          links -width 72 -html-numbered-links 0 -dump               $@.tmp > 
 $@ || \
          lynx -dump -width=72 -nolist -stdin -force-html          < $@.tmp > 
 $@ || \
          $(srcdir)/../tools/html2text.py --width=72 --no-links $@.tmp > $@ ) 
&& \
        rm -f $@.tmp
 
 This will generate a few errors "... not found", but who cares?
 
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