From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 8 02:37:26 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CE44614C for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2014 02:37:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp1.multiplay.co.uk (smtp1.multiplay.co.uk [85.236.96.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91A86292E for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2014 02:37:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp1.multiplay.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 4309120E7088C; Sun, 8 Jun 2014 02:37:24 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on smtp1.multiplay.co.uk X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.0 required=8.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DOS_OE_TO_MX, FSL_HELO_NON_FQDN_1,HELO_NO_DOMAIN,RDNS_DYNAMIC,TO_EQ_FM_DIRECT_MX autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Received: from r2d2 (82-69-141-170.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.141.170]) by smtp1.multiplay.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 03DA620E7088A; Sun, 8 Jun 2014 02:37:19 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: From: "Steven Hartland" To: "Steven Hartland" , , References: <20140510231148.GC783@lena.kiev> <2F159F2E10E94735814656F42D1876F2@multiplay.co.uk> Subject: Re: Unable to use ports on 8.3 or earlier since r352986 Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 03:37:18 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 02:37:26 -0000 I take it back this fails for qt4-rcc which fails to detect endian and other issues :( So far Lena's suggestion of an 8.4 make is working :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Hartland" > For the record bmake doesn't work is fails to build qmake4 without even > giving an error :( > > Where as copying make from 10 to the 8.3 box worked fine. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2014 12:11 AM > Subject: Re: Unable to use ports on 8.3 or earlier since r352986 > > >>> > As a work-around it may be possible to install the devel/bmake port and >>> > use it for port management. >> >>> Yes this should work. Install devel/bmake, then use 'bmake' instead of >>> 'make' when interacting with the ports tree. Or install devel/fmake and >>> use 'fmake'. Either works. >> >> Or download 8.4 sources: >> >> rm -rf /usr/src >> svn export svn://svn0.us-east.FreeBSD.org/base/releng/8.4 /usr/src >> >> and upgrade the `make` binary only: >> >> cd /usr/src/usr.bin/make >> make >> make install >> >> Or (untested) copy the file /usr/bin/make from 8.4 CD or its image, >> an example for i386: >> >> fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/8.4/FreeBSD-8.4-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso >> mdconfig -f FreeBSD-8.4-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso >> mount_cd9660 /dev/md0 /mnt >> cp -p /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/make.bak >> cp /mnt/usr/bin/make /usr/bin/make >> umount /mnt >> mdconfig -d -u 0 >> >> Or if i386 then you can use the binary from my 8.4: >> >> fetch http://lena.kiev.ua/make84.bin >> cp -p /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/make.bak >> cp make84.bin /usr/bin/make