Problems building FreeBSD 9.2 on FreeBSD 10

[Lowell Gilbert]

Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at FreeBSD.org> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Simon J. Gerraty <sjg at juniper.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 11:35:42 -0700, Craig Rodrigues writes:
>>>Do you know if there is some sort of patch that can be applied to
>>>FreeBSD stable/9 sources so that it can be built on a FreeBSD
>>>10/stable, or FreeBSD CURRENT
>>>host with bmake?
>>
>> You would likely need to apply many of the changes made in 10.
>> IIRC stable/9 has just enough bmake support to be able to build/install
>> bmake itself, so that ports can use it.
>>
>> I'm not sure how many people would appreciate making such changes to
>> stable/9 at this point.
>
> Most users would not care about building stable/9 on a stable/10 host.
> There are only a few people care about being able to do that.
> People who use poudriere to build a jail to build ports would care.

Couldn't they just build the base in that same jail?