[27705] trunk/dports/x11/gtk2/Portfile

[N_Ox]

Le 14 août 07 à 02:54, Ryan Schmidt a écrit :

> On Aug 12, 2007, at 10:40, N_Ox wrote:
>
>> Le 12 août 07 à 16:39, Randall Wood a écrit :
>>
>>> On 12 Aug 2007, at 10:23, N_Ox wrote:
>>>
>>>> Le 12 août 07 à 15:57, Randall Wood a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>> What would be the best way to check for darwin platforms with a  
>>>>> version less than 8 in a Portfile?
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12 Aug 2007, at 09:50, source_changes at macosforge.org wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Revision 27705 Author rhwood at macports.org Date 2007-08-12  
>>>>>> 06:50:02 -0700 (Sun, 12 Aug 2007) Log Message configure.env ->  
>>>>>> configure.*flags-append statements redo dependencies based on  
>>>>>> trace output replace ui_msg blah ; exit 1 statements with  
>>>>>> return 1 blah statements Modified Paths
>>>>>> trunk/dports/x11/gtk2/Portfile
>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>> On a side note, should not the return statement be `return -code  
>>>> 1 blah`?
>>>
>>> Beats me. This statement is not documented in "man portfile" or  
>>> in the guide at http://geeklair.net/new_macports_guide
>>
>> This is a standard TCL procedure, see return(n).
>
> I'm not familiar with standard TCL procedures, and I'd estimate  
> most port authors aren't. We just know enough to get by to write  
> portfiles. I for one would certainly appreciate it if everything  
> necessary to write portfiles, including standard TCL, were  
> documented in the guide and/or the manpage.
>

I agree with you and I would even say that it would be better to  
write an "error" alias to the "return" procedure, something like that:
	error blah

Regards,

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