BUG Python 2.0 FreeBSD compile problem

A.M. Kuchling amk at mira.erols.com
Thu Jan 11 21:40:17 EST 2001


On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:31:26 -0600 (CST), 
	Chris Watson <chris at voodooland.net> wrote:
>Python is IN the ports tree. And someone (the maintainer of that port) had
>already gone to the trouble to patch it and insure it compiles well and
>added the other nice features of "ports" in FreeBSD. So there was no need

And this points up an annoying thing about FreeBSD; patches are made
to get Python to compile on the platform, but those changes aren't
contributed *back* to the original Python source tree.  How can one
find out what changes were made to a package in the ports tree?

--amk



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