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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