On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 12:08 PM Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 2021/01/11 12:04, Gerald Chudyk wrote:
> > Index: lang/gnucobol/Makefile
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/ports/lang/gnucobol/Makefile,v
> > retrieving revision 1.7
> > diff -u -p -u -r1.7 Makefile
> > --- lang/gnucobol/Makefile      27 Dec 2020 16:54:11 -0000      1.7
> > +++ lang/gnucobol/Makefile      11 Jan 2021 19:58:48 -0000
> > @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ SHARED_LIBS +=  cob     5.0     # 5.0
> >
> >  CATEGORIES =   lang
> >
> > -HOMEPAGE =     http://www.opencobol.org/
> > +HOMEPAGE =     http://www.gnu.org/software/gnucobol/
> >
> >  # compiler: GPLv3+
> >  # run-time library: LGPLv3+
> >
>
> It just redirects to https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/, I'll update it
> to that instead.

I submitted this change at the request of Simon, one of the gnucobol
developers. They have been working at changing upstream to install as
clean as possible on openbsd and asked me a few questions that will
take me a long time to understand and answer. If you don't mind a
punt, here is what he is asking:

> Can you please check with fcambus for the following points?
>
> 1 fix the homepage
> https://www.gnu.org/software/gnucobol/

OK, we did that.

>
> 2 BUILD_DEPENDS - makeinfo should not be invoked at all if it isn't manually 
> triggered in the OpenBSD build process

> 3 configure patch: if makeinfo is needed it should be possible to pass it via 
> CONFIGURE_ENV - if this doesn't work we would integrate a patch for that :-)

> 4 that looks special, what does
> echo "-$OSTYPE-"
> return in OpenBS (or any BSD)?
> If there's something useful in it we can add this to the "upstream" sources

Thanks,
Gerald.

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