From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 6 18:59:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6033916A4DA for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 18:59:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from itetcu@FreeBSD.org) Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (it.buh.tecnik93.com [81.196.204.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD35C43D46 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 18:59:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@FreeBSD.org) Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3B8D1765D; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 21:58:54 +0300 (EEST) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 21:58:54 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai "IOnut" Tetcu To: Chuck Swiger Message-ID: <20060706215854.371e5c38@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <44AD355B.9030202@mac.com> References: <200607061557.k66FvXD7008274@sorsby.org> <44AD355B.9030202@mac.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.8.19; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_7hNogxE_Ws9HGfThQ6Tl0AF; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 Cc: ports@freeBSD.org, crs@swcp.com Subject: Re: Question about ports builds 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: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 18:59:02 -0000 --Sig_7hNogxE_Ws9HGfThQ6Tl0AF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:07:55 -0400 Chuck Swiger wrote: > Charlie Sorsby wrote: > > When one builds (or attempts to build) a port, does the Makefile > > know about dependencies and, if necessary, fetch and build any=20 > > that are needed but not found? >=20 > Yes and yes. >=20 > [ ... ] > > PS It would be really helpful if each port/package at freebsd.org > > had an indication whether it requires the latest and greatest > > version of freeBSD. Put another way, it would be nice to know the > > oldest version of freeBSD it will work with. Perhaps that could be > > included in the "Requires" list on the page for the port/package. >=20 > The people maintaining the ports attempt to support them on all of the ac= tive=20 > versions of FreeBSD, which means 4.10 or 4.11, 5.3 and later, 6.0 and lat= er,=20 > and -CURRENT (what will become 7.0). Support for 4.x is going away soon,= =20 > however, and it will become more common for new ports to not work on 4.x = as=20 > time passes. >=20 > For those ports that do not work with an older version like 4.x because o= f=20 > features added to more recent versions of the operating system, ports usu= ally=20 > will indicate this in the Makefile. Actually "support" for 4.x is gone already. We're only required to mark the ports broken or incorporate patches from the users. Of curse, we try to fix broken ports on 4-STABLE but that battle is going to be lost. --=20 IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" Change is the essential process of all existence. -- Spock, "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield", stardate 5730.2 --Sig_7hNogxE_Ws9HGfThQ6Tl0AF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFErV1uBX6fi0k6KXsRAuHNAJkBcNHRsZk9Xju26sKjNxfIyDGT3gCePFm2 soMAYCzPxiy6aPKHHuSksx4= =zhAb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_7hNogxE_Ws9HGfThQ6Tl0AF--