From: Martin Waschbüsch <[email protected]>
Subject: Makefile question / new port for dovecot fts-plugin
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 15:50:28 +0000

> Hello,
> 
> While creating a new port
> (https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=261766), I
> attempted to get portlint to not complain about anything.
> However, even though I tried to follow the order as found here:
> https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook/order/
> 
> portlint always warns about the ordering of the *_DEPENDS variables.
> If someone could kindly explain how the Makefile needs to be
> structured to avoid these warnings?

It seems portlint stops warning if blank lines between BUILD_DEPENDS,
LIB_DEDPENDS and RUN_DEPENDS are removed.

> Also, any and all advice, feedback, etc. on the port as such is very
> welcome.

As is written in the section 10.2 of Porter's Handbook, it is
recommended to check your Makefile with portclippy and portfmt.

---
Yasuhiro Kimura

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