Can fmake be deleted?

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at freebsd.org
Tue Apr 22 21:46:17 UTC 2014


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 02:37:14PM -0700, Julio Merino wrote:
> 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?
That is the plan, as long as all supported version of FreeBSD has bmake
installed. We haven't got through the details yet :)
> 
> - Can fmake be removed from base even if ports hasn't yet dropped its
> support for fmake?

Yes as right now we do support both
> 
> Thanks

Bapt
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