On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 04:52:45PM +0300, Paul Irofti wrote:
> On 9/27/2018 4:31 PM, Landry Breuil wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 03:50:16PM +0300, Paul Irofti wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Why isn't libinotify installed in /usr/local/lib?
> > >
> > > CONFIGURE_ARGS = --libdir=${PREFIX}/lib/inotify/ \
> > > --includedir=${PREFIX}/include/inotify/
> > >
> > > This choice implies path manipulation and patching for most ports that
> > > depend on it.
> >
> > Because it's an evil linux only thing that half works on openbsd through
> > broken kqueue implementation, so nobody wants it to be silently picked
> > by potential users..
> >
> > Landry
> >
>
> Ah, our famous NIH syndrome! Got it!
No it's not like that at all.
It's the kqueue implementation in it that is half broken and unmaintained (and
that was written for BSD, so definitely *not* NIH). If someone can have a look
at it and make sure it's working fine, then we can open the usage to a broader
amount of ports.
--
Antoine
