Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/sysutils/pfstat

[John Marino <netbsd%marino.st@localhost>]

On 5/27/2012 21:05, David Holland wrote:
> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 02:21:11PM +0000, John Marino wrote:
>   >  Added Files:
>   >          pkgsrc/sysutils/pfstat: hacks.mk
>   >
>   >  Log Message:
>   >  sysutils/pfstat: Add DragonFly hack
>   >
>   >  After spending more time on this this trying to patch it properly than I
>   >  care to admit, I concede defeat and add a hack.mk for DragonFly.
>   >
>   >  I'm not exactly sure what the problem is, other than "make" works on the
>   >  subdir makefile and "bmake" doesn't.  And that's only true if executed
>   >  outside of the package -- hardcoding "make" inside the do-build phase
>   >  doesn't work.  Weird problem, but the hack works.
>
> Well yes, "make" inside the do-build phase will get you pkgsrc bmake.
>
> Given that the offending makefile is completely straightforward and
> entirely inoffensive, there must be either a bug in pkgsrc's make
> (which ought to be fixed) or in bootstrap-mk-files (ditto).
>
> Does anything interesting happen if you make build-env and then in the
> subshell run make -n by hand in the subdir?

So thanks for telling me about the existence of "bmake build-env". 
That's useful, I didn't know about it.

If I type "make -n" or "bmake -n" in the subdir, the executable is 
created as would be expected.  Bypassing the wrapper for "/usr/bin/make 
-n" has the same result.

John