Ryan Schmidt dixit:

>Hello, I'm a developer with the MacPorts project. An mksh package was
>submitted to MacPorts today, and I just committed it.

Thank you very much!

>So if you wanted to list that on your web site, you could do that.

OK will do.

>You currently list Homebrew and Fink packages, and have a note
>"Missing packaging: DarwinPorts/MacPorts (none at all)".
>
>Note that you should not refer to the name "DarwinPorts" anymore; we
>changed our name to MacPorts in 2008.

Okay, thanks. I’ll add/change this.

>I also wanted to report a bug I found. When building, it says:
>
>Hi from $MirOS: src/bin/mksh/Build.sh,v 1.655 2014/01/05 21:57:21 tg Exp $ on:
>$ hwprefs machine_type os_type os_class >&2
>| ./Build.sh: line 211: hwprefs: command not found
>
>It seems you're deliberately targeting Darwin OS (i.e. OS X) and in

Actually, I was just trying to shove some information about the
environment the shell was built in into the log, in case I get
asked questions by packagers. I’ve gathered information from a
friend who is a Macintosh user, and from what I could try out
when he gave me ssh access to his laptop and his iPhone.

>that case running the hwprefs command, but no such command exists. If
>you want to get info about an OS X system, system_profiler, sw_vers or
>sysctl would be good commands to use. For example:

Will add these (I’ll keep hwprefs for people building on older
systems though). Thanks a lot.

>If there's other information you want to gather, let me know what
>information you want it to print and I'll see what I can do.

Basically anything you can imagine either upstream or a porter
or packager could want to know about the operating environment
when debugging a build “post-mortem”, from the build log.

>Please Cc me on replies; I'm not subscribed to the list.

Sure. http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.miros.mksh also exists,
feel free to use it. (The list is rather new; older mksh-
related questions are at gmane.os.miros.general intermixed
with generic MirBSD stuff. miros-mksh is forwarded to all
miros-discuss subscribers.)

bye,
//mirabilos
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