How to Handle the Three Newest Additions to the /usr/ports/CHANGES?

[Bob Perry]

Joshua Tinnin wrote:

>On Saturday 24 July 2004 08:36 am, Bob Perry <rperry4 at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>Joshua Tinnin wrote:
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>>>On Saturday 24 July 2004 07:36 am, Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig at spymac.com>
>>>
>>>wrote:
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>>>>On Friday 23 July 2004 10:10 pm, Bob Perry <rperry4 at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>>>>Just cvsup'd my system for the weekend and found three additions
>>>>>to the /usr/ports/CHANGES file.  They referenced a replacement of
>>>>>the XFREE86_VERSION variable by the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable,
>>>>>a big update to PHP ports and bsd.php.mk to add more flexibility  plus
>>>>>an announcement that "OpenLDAP version 2.2 is now the default..."
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm still learning FreeBSD and deal with issues as they come up.   I
>>>>>remember reading postings regarding the XFree86 issue but thought
>>>>>I had the option to leave well enough alone.  Maybe not.
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>I don't know about the other two, but as for the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM
>>>>variable, it looks to me like it's related to this:
>>>>
>>>>http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-July/032267.html
>>>>
>>>>It only applies to -CURRENT right now, but it's as easy as adding a line
>>>>to rc.conf if you want to stay with XFree86.
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>>>>
>>>Sorry, that should have been make.conf. It's too early ...
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>>>
>>JT,
>>Thanks for the update.  Just read all of the related messages and I think I
>>can handle this.
>>
>>Need to pause for a moment and give myself a FreeBSD pep talk.
>>
>>Thanks again.
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>
>Well, that being said, I did just encounter a problem when trying to update 
>the ports database after a cvsup (running 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 with XOrg):
>
>smogmonster# portsdb -uU
>Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait.."Makefile", 
>line 34: Malformed conditional (${XFREE86_VERSION} == 3 
>&& !defined(WITHOUT_X))
>"Makefile", line 36: if-less endif
>"Makefile", line 36: Need an operator
>make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
>===> chinese/arphicttf failed
>*** Error code 1
>1 error
>
>My /etc/make.conf is:
>
># Created: Fri Apr 16 06:11:06 2004
># Setting to use base perl from ports:
>PERL_VER=5.6.1
>PERL_VERSION=5.6.1
>PERL_ARCH=mach
>NOPERL=yo
>NO_PERL=yo
>NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo
>CPUTYPE?=athlon-xp
>CFLAGS= -O -pipe
>COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe
>#X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg
>
>I commented the line with the new X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable to see if that were 
>the problem, but it didn't change anything.
>
>- jt
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This is what I found in the CHANGE file.  I'm sure you already read it 
but maybe
there's something that could help by taking a second look.  This is the 
best that  I
can offer:

20040723:
AUTHOR: anholt at FreeBSD.org
  The XFREE86_VERSION variable is replaced by the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable.
  XFREE86_VERSION may no longer be used by ports Makefiles.  
X_WINDOW_SYSTEM may
  currently be set to xorg, xfree86-4, and xfree86-3 (please use :L in 
checking
  it).  Several X_*_PORT variables are provided by bsd.port.mk which map 
to the
  appropriate port for the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM chosen.

Bob Perry

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