Re: development best practices

2020-11-28 Thread Stuart Henderson
Your i3status problem with an out-of-ports build is probably because the configure script runs "make" with a file that has GNU make syntax. Running it with "MAKE=gmake" in the environment fixes this (this is one of many things that are set automatically by the ports infrastructure). On

Re: development best practices

2020-11-28 Thread Hannu Vuolasaho
la 28. marrask. 2020 klo 16.11 Stefan Sperling (s...@stsp.name) kirjoitti: > You can then extract your fix and apply it to an upstream development tree. > If additional patches are required to get the software to compile, you > might as well attempt to upstream those changes, too, while at it. >

Re: development best practices

2020-11-28 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 12:27:47PM +, björn gohla wrote: > hi all, > > i'm fairly new to openbsd. and i've run into the following problem, > where i want to hack a project (most recently trying to fix a possible > issue with i3status), but building the from the git source > tree fails. > >

Re: development best practices

2020-11-28 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Bjoern, bjoern gohla wrote on Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 12:27:47PM +: > i'm fairly new to openbsd. and i've run into the following problem, > where i want to hack a project (most recently trying to fix a possible > issue with i3status), but building the from the git source > tree fails. > >

development best practices

2020-11-28 Thread björn gohla
hi all, i'm fairly new to openbsd. and i've run into the following problem, where i want to hack a project (most recently trying to fix a possible issue with i3status), but building the from the git source tree fails. now, in the specific case, i'm trying to build a version that, also exists in