[40682] trunk/dports

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 10, 2008, at 12:19, nox at macports.org wrote:

> Revision: 40682
>           http://trac.macports.org/changeset/40682
> Author:   nox at macports.org
> Date:     2008-10-10 10:19:39 -0700 (Fri, 10 Oct 2008)
> Log Message:
> -----------
> cln, nestedsums, qmail-spamcontrol, xloops: Errors in platform  
> blocks are now executed in a pre-fetch block.
>
> Modified Paths:
> --------------
>     trunk/dports/mail/qmail-spamcontrol/Portfile
>     trunk/dports/math/cln/Portfile
>     trunk/dports/math/nestedsums/Portfile
>     trunk/dports/science/xloops/Portfile
>
> Modified: trunk/dports/mail/qmail-spamcontrol/Portfile
> ===================================================================
> --- trunk/dports/mail/qmail-spamcontrol/Portfile	2008-10-10  
> 16:44:12 UTC (rev 40681)
> +++ trunk/dports/mail/qmail-spamcontrol/Portfile	2008-10-10  
> 17:19:39 UTC (rev 40682)
> @@ -243,7 +243,9 @@
>  }
>
>  platform darwin 6 {
> -	return -code error "${name} requires Mac OS X 10.3 or newer."
> +	pre-fetch {
> +		error "${name} requires Mac OS X 10.3 or newer."
> +	}
>  }

What is the difference between "error" and "return -code error"? I  
keep learning about new ways of returning errors from ports. It's  
disconcerting that there are so many ways. :/