Can fmake be deleted?

Julio Merino jmmv at freebsd.org
Tue Apr 22 21:37:41 UTC 2014


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 01:20:46PM -0700, Julio Merino wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> The WITHOUT_BMAKE=yes build has been broken for over a month and, as
>> far as I can tell, only tinderbox noticed... (Should be fixed with a
>> commit I made yesterday but tinderbox hasn't caught up yet.)
>>
>> Question: is there any reason to keep the old fmake around or could it
>> be deleted along all the MK_BMAKE logic?
>>
> At least for the ports side the plan is to drop fmake support as soon as
> possible.

What does that mean?

- Can ports drop support for fmake before fmake is removed from base?

- Can fmake be removed from base even if ports hasn't yet dropped its
support for fmake?

Thanks


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