Re: pkg/46570: infelicities in pkglint

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/46570; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/46570: infelicities in pkglint
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:11:26 +0200

 On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 01:40:06AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 >  On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 02:00:14AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 >   > The following reply was made to PR pkg/46570; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >   >  I'm currently getting a lot of these Perl messages:
 >   >  
 >   >  Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at 
 > /usr/pkg/bin/pkglint line 4776.
 >  
 >  This is caused by e.g. line 38 of x11/antiright/Makefile:
 >  
 >     TOOLS_DEPENDS.pkg-config=        pkg-config>=0.20:../../devel/pkg-config
 
 I've fixed the warning.
 
 >  this line also generates
 >  
 >     WARN: Makefile:38: Permission [set] requested for 
 > TOOLS_DEPENDS.pkg-config, but only [] is allowed.
 >  
 >  which seems wrong.
 
 It says that TOOLS_DEPENDS.pkg-config should not be changed by a
 package Makefile. Are you arguing that it should be allowed or that
 the error message should have some text between the brackets?
  Thomas