svn commit: r266760 - head/contrib/bmake

Craig Rodrigues rodrigc at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jun 5 17:58:46 UTC 2014


On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
> It would be nice if we could put that code back into make, but have
> it disabled. There are several people that use custom old trees that are
> hitting this when they build on newer systems... While /usr/ports is ready,
> forks of it might not be.  I'm cool with having it be turned off by default,
> but it sure would be convenient to be able to flip it back on... Anybody
> object if I do this?
>
> Warner


I think we need something like this, because there are people out
there building embedded products such
as FreeNAS which need to use an older ports tree, but may be using
newer FreeBSD build servers
or FreeBSD desktops to do the build.

--
Craig


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