From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Sep 23 08:07:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA00971 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 08:07:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA00947 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 08:07:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee by agora.rdrop.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0v5Cac-0008wVC; Mon, 23 Sep 96 08:06 PDT Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.7.5/8.6.12) id RAA14711; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 17:59:34 +0300 (EET DST) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 17:59:34 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: Chuck Robey cc: FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: bsd.port.mk In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > Something I've noticed recently, involving the additions of the INSTALL_ > macros to bsd.port.mk ... using these macros is making installation fail > on ports that are built on earlier systems, that aren't using the latest > version of bsd.port.mk. > > I don't want to suggest that we take the macros out, because I don't want > to limit progress. What I want everyone to notice is that this failure > might exist, and that I have experimented (with the help of people that > have earlier systems) and I know that using an updated version of > bsd.port.mk on, say, 2.1.5 or 2.1.0 or even earlier systems has no ill > effect, and does fix the problem. > > So, if you find that your favorite port isn't building, consider ftp'ing > an up to date copy of /usr/share/bsd.port.mk from your favorite mirror. > Especially if the failure is on install. How about copying this over to the -stable mailing list and/or the -stable maintainer and have it officialy introduced into the -stable tree? Sander > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data > chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. > 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | > Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD > (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > >