[CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program

David O'Brien obrien at FreeBSD.org
Fri Oct 26 18:09:13 UTC 2012


On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 09:41:36AM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> We have to be able to build the same source for multiple versions of
> freebsd, so even finding all the old :U and :L and any other
> incompatibilities and fixing them isn't an option because we'd just
> trade "works in freebsd 10" for "broken in every other environment".

Ian,
If you're using FreeBSD 9 after 2012-06-14, or FreeBSD 8 or 7 after
2012-10-09 you can use the Bmake spelling of ":U" and ":L" (:tu/:tl).

I am not aruging against you, just giving some information you may not
be aware of.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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