On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:08:47PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Some time ago espie@ added a check to make sure that /usr/ports was not a 
> symlink because this could break a couple (or 3?) ports.
> I hate that restriction.
> Last time I talked to him he said that chromium needed to be fixed because it 
> was one of the outstanding ports that would not build with a symlinked 
> /usr/ports.
> 
> Well I just reverted the diff and chromium built fine with /usr/ports -> 
> /home/cvs/openbsd/ports today.
> So I am proposing to revert the diff and if any other port breaks because of 
> this, I volunteer to fix it/them; I just find the restriction stupid.
> Sometimes it is good to adapt the infrastructure for broken stuffs, but here 
> it makes no sense especially if we are talking about a couple of ports.
> 
> comments/ok?
> 
> 
> Index: bsd.port.mk
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk,v
> retrieving revision 1.1224
> diff -u -r1.1224 bsd.port.mk
> --- bsd.port.mk       14 May 2013 13:38:59 -0000      1.1224
> +++ bsd.port.mk       15 May 2013 20:03:33 -0000
> @@ -2401,11 +2401,6 @@
>  
>  ${_WRKDIR_COOKIE}:
>       @rm -rf ${WRKDIR}
> -     @if test -h ${PORTSDIR}; then \
> -             echo 1>&2 "Fatal: ${PORTSDIR} is a symlink."; \
> -             echo 1>&2 "Please point PORTSDIR to the real directory (in 
> /etc/mk.conf)"; \
> -             exit 1; \
> -     fi
>  .if ${PORTS_BUILD_XENOCARA_TOO:L} != "yes"
>       @appdefaults=${LOCALBASE}/lib/X11/app-defaults; \
>       if ! test -d $$appdefaults -a -h $$appdefaults; then \
> 
> -- 
> Antoine

Totally OK with me (although I'll run a bulk with it just to be sure). No
reason to facilitate broken ports in the framework.

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