From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Feb 5 18:26:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA05550 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 18:26:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA05543; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 18:25:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from rover.village.org [127.0.0.1] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 0.56 #1) id E0vsJWO-0002dq-00; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 19:25:08 -0700 To: obrien@NUXI.com (David O'Brien) Subject: Re: conditionally including Cc: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey), freebsd-ports@freebsd.org (FreeBSD ports list), hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Feb 1997 11:26:04 PST." <19970205112604.AI13761@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <19970205112604.AI13761@dragon.nuxi.com> <19970205003343.YB13323@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 19:25:07 -0700 From: Warner Losh Message-Id: Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <19970205112604.AI13761@dragon.nuxi.com> David O'Brien writes: : Thing. Since both NetBSD and OpenBSD pretty much use our ports (and I : think they like not having to throw resources on them), it would be in : their best interests for the return they get. Ummm, there is some effort in doing that for things that need to change on FreeBSD, since they likely need to change for OpenBSD and NetBSD as well. : using these macros. They seem to be the only true way of dealing with : this. If anyone knows who wrote those words, I'd love to start a dialog : with them. I strongly disagree with this. I think that the BSD macro method works well enough, and with the slight tweaks that we've talked about here it works almost perfectly. It is close enough to perfect that most software authors will take the changes back into their source trees and things will be solved for all the BSDs, not just Free,Open and Net (oh, and BSDi too). Warner