Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/x11/clisp-gtk2

[Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>]

David Holland <dholland-pkgchanges%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 01:12:11AM +0400, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
>  > > Modified Files:
>  > >  pkgsrc/x11/clisp-gtk2: Makefile
>  > >
>  > > Log Message:
>  > > Use ${} instead of $() to appease pkglint.
>  > 
>  > Please, revert this and all other similar changes.
>  > This is useless and stupid. pkglint should be fixed instead.
>
> While I'm inclined to agree, the convention in pkgsrc (and also in
> base) has long been to use only ${}, and a lot of people felt strongly
> about it.
>
> pkglint also enforces a number of other "purely aesthetic" things that
> are enforced for consistency, like the order of declarations. It's not
> at all clear that those are markedly different, and fairly clear that
> enforcing them has some benefits.

Using curly braces doesn't help in any meaningful way, this differs
from grouping. That is, if you know how definitions are grouped, you
know where to check for some variable and expect that it isn't set
elsewhere.

And in some cases replacing parentheses masks problems with one half
probability since shell doesn't distinguish between undefined and empty
variables but it distinguishes between existing and non-existing commands.

> Furthermore, your change to pkglint is incorrect in some fashion, or
> maybe just insufficient. With your change, in clisp-gtk2, with ${}, I
> get:
>
> ERROR: Makefile: All packages must define their LICENSE.
> ERROR: patches/patch-ab:3: Comment expected.
> 2 errors and 0 warnings found. (Use -e for more details.)
>
> but if I put back the $(), it spews:
>
> ERROR: Makefile: All packages must define their LICENSE.
> WARN: Makefile:4: CLISP_MODULE is defined but not used. Spelling mistake?
> WARN: Makefile:6: "clisp-$(CLISP_MODULE)-$(CLISP_VERSION)" is not a valid 
> package name. A valid package name has the form packagename-version, where 
> version consists only of digits, letters and dots.
> ERROR: patches/patch-ab:3: Comment expected.
> 2 errors and 2 warnings found. (Use -e for more details.)
>
> Please fix or revert...

If it forces rules without understanding proper syntax, then it should
be abandoned rather than followed blindly.

I'll look into this anyway.


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