Subject: PKGNAME version no question
To: None <tech-userlevel@NetBSD.ORG>
From: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 06/15/1998 17:42:03
I'm working on a package for f2c and its all done except for PKGNAME.
Currently I have
DISTNAME=	f2c

and portlint complains:

dan@dinah-moe (738)-% portlint
OK: checking pkg/COMMENT.
OK: checking pkg/DESCR.
OK: checking Makefile.
FATAL: PKGNAME, which is derived from DISTNAME, must come with version
number, like "foobaa-1.0".
OK: checking files/md5.
OK: checking patches/patch-aa.
OK: checking patches/patch-ab.
OK: checking patches/patch-ac.
OK: checking patches/patch-ad.
1 fatal errors and 0 warnings found.
dan@dinah-moe (739)-% 


I don't have a version number because f2c doesn't come with one.  As far
as I can tell, the only way to tell what "version" is to look at the
"changes" file in the f2c distribution (which has dates and comments, but
also no version numbers).

Should I just blow off the version number and let PKGNAME get set to be
the same as DISTNAME (ie, "f2c")?

I think thats the only thing left to do (plus some more testing).  I
needed to get f2c up and available for scilab (a matlab like program,
quite nice).

Thanks for any suggestions.

--Dan