HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT

[Gleb Kurtsou]

On (26/09/2011 23:03), Ade Lovett wrote:
> With the advent of the conversion of HEAD to 10.0-CURRENT and, as to be
> expected, ports/ is going to be essentially unusable for a while.
> 
> The issue stems from configure scripts (to choose something completely
> at random) assuming that FreeBSD would never jump to a double-digit
> major version number, and as such, various regexps for "freebsd1*" (ie:
> FreeBSD 1.1.x) are now matching "freebsd10".

It's more exciting than that. FreeBSD >= 10 is already seized by
Apple :)

http://www.google.com/codesearch#search/&q=__FreeBSD__%5CW%2B10&type=cs


> 
> This is going to be some fairly fundamental breakage.
> 
> However, until such time as 9.0-RELEASE is completely out of the door,
> with autotools hat on, I will _not_ be committing any changes to
> infrastructural ports to "fix" this.
> 
> That is to say, until 9.0-R happens, and for some considerable period
> afterwards, ya'll can pretty much expect ports/ to be non-functional on
> HEAD.  PRs mentioning this will be gleefully closed referencing this
> message.
> 
> -aDe
> 
> Reply-To set to me.  Please honor it.
> 
> 
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