Warning: reinplace ... didn't change anything in ...

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
wrote:

> MacPorts 2.4.1 shows a new warning when a reinplace command doesn't change
> anything. The purpose of reinplace is to change something in a file, so
> when that doesn't happen, it may be a developer error that we want to alert
> the developer about. Portfile developers should remove these warnings in
> the appropriate way, which may be to fix the reinplace or use a patchfile
> instead; remove the reinplace; or silence the warning.


Is there a convenient way to silence it? For example, I can imagine a
reinplace intended to allow replacement of /opt/local with an alternate
prefix, which will in most cases trigger the warning.

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