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Date:      Sat, 20 Jul 2002 17:48:35 +0100 (BST)
From:      Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        ru@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [POLL] need a good name for share/mk API versioning
Message-ID:  <200207201648.g6KGmZJE085462@dotar.thuvia.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020719.100151.96158427.imp@bsdimp.com>

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> From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
> Date: Fri 19 Jul, 2002
> Subject: Re: [POLL] need a good name for share/mk API versioning

> In message: <200207181943.g6IJhu5A016231@dotar.thuvia.org>
>             Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> writes:
> : If this were only for ports, the existing OSVERSION in bsd.port.mk
> : would suffice, no?
> 
> No.  The OS version and the .mk files may (and often are) unrelated.
> This is especially true in the case of cross build environments, which
> are often used to insulate products from whatever version of FreeBSD
> they happen to be running on.  At Timing solutions, we often build 4.5
> based products on a 4.3 machine, and vice versa.

Does this work for the ports system?  I recognise the need for cross builds,
but didn't consider it for ports.  After all, they already use OSVERSION...

		Cheers,

		Mark.

-- 
Mark Valentine, Thuvia Labs <mark@thuvia.co.uk>       <http://www.thuvia.co.uk>;
"Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich."       Mark Valentine uses
"We're kind of stupid that way."   *munch* *munch*        and endorses FreeBSD
  -- <http://www.calvinandhobbes.com>;                  <http://www.freebsd.org>;

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