Re: emacs packages fail

[Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>]

 >> But EMACS_VERSION_MAJOR is empty.

 >>    0 ! emacs-w3m>~/pkg.temp/bin/bmake show-var VARNAME=EMACS_VERSION_MAJOR


 >>    0 ! emacs-w3m>

> I've already reported this bug about year ago but it is still not fixed.
> http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=37146

> Result of 'make show-var VARNAME=DEPENDS' should not depend
> on whether emacs is installed or not.

It's not clear for me what does this silence mean. About year ago I've
reported a bug. Now I provide a solution, patch that helps to detect
emacs version without running 'pkg_info -e <emacs>' by introducing
<emacses>/Makefile.ver files and changing mk/emacs.mk appropriately.

I'd like to see PR/37146 fixed and my solution is easy.  Patch is also
trivial, several Makefile.ver appeared and mk/emacs.mk changed
accordingly.

So, what's the problem? :-( Is patch bad? Tell why.

P.S.  Of course, VARIANTS part should be removed from it, it appeared
there by my mistake.

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Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.