From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 8 21:47:08 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E904816A421 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 21:47:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4B0413C478 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 21:47:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from bb.ipt.ru ([194.62.233.89]) by services.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1JCMHr-000EBj-Md; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:47:07 +0300 To: Kris Kennaway References: <61565506@bb.ipt.ru> <4783E1C6.50001@FreeBSD.org> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:45:32 +0300 In-Reply-To: <4783E1C6.50001@FreeBSD.org> (Kris Kennaway's message of "Tue\, 08 Jan 2008 21\:49\:10 +0100") Message-ID: <95483459@bb.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pointyhat is building for 5.5 but claiming 8.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:47:09 -0000 Kris, thanks for your help. On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:49:10 +0100 Kris Kennaway wrote: > > I'm not sure if that's a port problem. What do you think? > No, the port is using sysctl(2) to query the OS version which cannot > be wrapped. Hm, ports-mgmt/tinderbox masks it somehow... And doesn't get an error for this port. > This is common in the python world. It needs to use > uname(1) or uname(3) or OSVERSION. The port itself (at the Makefile) uses "uname -r". There is something weird though. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve