[71212] trunk/dports/devel/openssl/Portfile

[Michael Dickens]

On Sep 4, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Joshua Root wrote:
>> On 2010-09-04 05:59 , michaelld at macports.org wrote:
>>  Revision: 71212
>>           http://trac.macports.org/changeset/71212
>>  Author:   michaelld at macports.org
>>  Date:     2010-09-04 08:38:19 -0700 (Sat, 04 Sep 2010)
>>  Log Message:
>>  -----------
>>  OpenSSL requires 'makedepend' to make depends during build.
>
> Evidence? This port is not openmaintainer...

Hi Joshua - I know that OpenSSL is not openmaintainer or
nomaintainer (and, I don't own it), which is why I added the
little ditty "Adding in without a ticket because it's such
a simple change".

Now, I will say "my bad" here because I was using a
personally-updated version (as documented in ticket #25686) with
variants that require the build process to issue "make depend"
before anything else -- which does indeed require the
"makedepend" port to be installed for building purposes.  I
learned of this because I'm finally upgrading to 10.6.4 x86_64 &
reinstalling MacPorts from scratch in the process.

When I move back to using the original Portfile (without the
"make depend" or my variants), it does indeed NOT require the
"depends_build makedepend".

In the future, even for such a "simple" change to a port that
is not openmaintainer or nomaintainer (i.e., it is fully owned &
not by me), should I submit a ticket with patch & then negotiate
& hope for the best?  For this specific change, doing so would
have been a good thing since it would have caught the issue
before the revision.  But, in the case of the ticket mentioned
above -- it is now 7 weeks old, and looks to be dead in the
water.  And, I don't think me correcting the patch file will help
with this ticket ... so, I'm not sure what to make of it, or
which way is better for such a simple change.  Obviously for a
complicated change a ticket is the correct way to go.

My apologies for the mistaken change; that Portfile can be
reverted back. - MLD