Subject: Re: python makefile stuff
To: Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/08/2001 10:50:05
	How about a mk/pkg.python.mk which could be included by individual
	packages?

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On Mon, 7 May 2001, Johnny C. Lam wrote:

> Murray Armfield <marmfiel@bigpond.net.au> writes:
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >            Just a quickie; is there any effort / interest in moving the
> > python makefile include stuff from lang/python/Makefile.inc to bsd.pkg.mk?
>
> I don't believe so.  It's not hard to include
> ../../lang/python/Makefile.inc in your own packages, and changes to
> just this one file won't affect all other packages as it would if the
> changes had to be made to bsd.pkg.mk.  The perl5 code was integrated
> into bsd.pkg.mk, but if I had to do it again, I'd separate it out into
> a new file to be included by p5-module packages.
>
> > Currently I use my own pkgsrc area as well as NetBSD's but for python
> > dependancies I need a copy of this Makefile.inc as well as bsd.pkg.mk. Can it
> > be consolidated?
>
> I face similar problems when I work on new php4 packages.  I generally
> just make symlinks from /usr/pkgsrc/mk and /usr/pkgsrc/www/php4 into
> my local pkgsrc tree and all my problems are solved.
>
> 	Cheers,
>
>      -- Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
>         Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
>         http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~lamj/
>
>