Your MacPorts ports need some love: the "cd" command is going away

Anders F Björklund afb at macports.org
Mon Nov 12 01:58:34 PST 2007


Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> Hi! You're receiving this email because a MacPorts port you maintain 
> uses the Tcl command "cd" to change into a directory for some reason. 
> The "cd" command has been deemed harmful for MacPorts, so a future 
> version of MacPorts will hide it from portfiles [1]. (MacPorts trunk 
> already does [2].) Therefore it's necessary to remove this command 
> everywhere it occurs in your portfiles, so that your ports continue to 
> function in future versions of MacPorts.

I think I fixed my ports, so maybe there is a bug report in your 
grep/regexp ?

Or maybe I missed one, in that case I'm thankful for an email or bug 
report...

--anders



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