Re: PLIST generation/management issues, graphics/vtk (tools discussion, not a real problem)

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost>]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2025 at 07:56:22PM +0100, Greg Troxel wrote:
>   It would be great to preserve/generate PLIST.foo guards, but it seems
>   hard.  It might be doable to keep the guard if the file is in the old
>   PLIST, sort of like keeping patch comments.

The current standard solution for that is adding lines like this:

devel/boost-libs/Makefile:PRINT_PLIST_AWK+=     /boost_context/ { $$0 = "$${PLIST.context}"$$0 }

I.e. find patterns for the files that need a guard and add
PRINT_PLIST_AWK lines for them.
 Thomas