4.9-STABLE --> 4.8-RELEASE downgrade. Pitfalls?

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Mon Jun 7 17:35:14 GMT 2004


Parv wrote:
[ ... ]
> Port making will fail if you keep ports trees updated at least due
> to use of new make(1) syntax introduced, in 4.9, in a port's
> Makefile.  The problem i noticed was related to use of parenthesis
> in ".if ... .endif" structure.

Thanks for the response, Parv, but ugh!  I cringe at the notion that 
continually tweaking make and the port Makefiles causes problems with 
backwards compatibility to a still-supported FreeBSD release.

-- 
-Chuck


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