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Re: pkg/37581: more missed tools in USE_TOOLS



On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:30:47PM +0300, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
>  >> There is only one issue remained in this PR.
>  >> 
>  >> graphics/radiance needs csh for building.
>  >> Can anybody add it to USE_TOOLS and close this PR?
> 
> > That's one approach - another would be changing whatever requires
> > csh to use a different shell that is more portable.
> 
> Upstream doesn't provide alternative implementations.

Who said anything about upstream?
 
> I have no time to reimplement 'makeall' script in /bin/sh or to talk to
> upstream. Adding build-time dependency on csh is easy.

The easy thing is not always the same as the right thing.

Regards,
Alistair


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