bsd.port.options.mk status

[Pav Lucistnik]

Dmitry Marakasov píše v po 10. 09. 2007 v 19:26 +0400:
> * Pav Lucistnik (pav at FreeBSD.org) wrote:
> 
> > > > It's possible to use this feature, but only on -CURRENT and -STABLE
> > > > FreeBSD systems newer than certain date. No existing release supports it
> > > > - it will be supported in upcoming 6.3 and 7.0.
> > > Erm, isn't ports code (more or less) release-independent? What's missing
> > > in existing FreeBSD versions that's needed to support options.mk?
> > The make only looks into /usr/share/mk for includes, until told
> > otherwise. bsd.port.options.mk is included before bsd.port.pre.mk, so it
> > can't be found. Base system was modified to install stub of the same
> > name into /usr/share/mk to workaround this problem.
> Understood. Then we really have to wait till 5.5 and 6.2 EOL to use
> options.mk... That's a bit strange to wait multiple years for an
> useful feature, aren't there any workaround planned?

The question is, are there any workarounds possible?

-- 
Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
              <pav at FreeBSD.org>

It whines, glows and fades...
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