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

[Chris Rees]

On 27 October 2012 19:52, Simon J. Gerraty <sjg at juniper.net> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:23:29 +0100, Chris Rees writes:
>>We (ab)use the security update mechanism to merge the pmake changes
>>(:tl and :tu) into releng/7.4 and releng/8.3 (possibly the earlier
>
> I originally provided the :tl and :tu patch for something like that
> (not planning any abuse mind ;-)
>
> But, if portmgr test my "patch" and find it works "ok" (for some value of
> "ok") for older releases, this probably isn't necessary?
>
> It may still be useful though to provide an updated fmake via ports,
> which could make it easier for folk to migrate other code bases.
> The sed script to be applied to makefiles is trivial btw:
>
> $ cat f2bmake.sed
> /$.*:[UL][:)}]/ { s,:L,:tl,g;s,:U,:tu,g; }
> $

I know the fix is trivial :)

I'm saying that it's unacceptable to expect people to change their
systems just to make the ports tree work after we have broken it on a
supposedly supported version.

Chris