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Date:      Sat, 10 May 2014 09:45:30 -0500
From:      Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Gyrd Thane Lange <gyrd-se@thanelange.no>, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unable to use ports on 8.3 or earlier since r352986
Message-ID:  <536E3B8A.50003@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <536CC8F6.1040509@thanelange.no>
References:  <495738D66545411BA78B31A6615EFA48@multiplay.co.uk> <536CC8F6.1040509@thanelange.no>

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On 5/9/2014 7:24 AM, Gyrd Thane Lange wrote:
> Den 09. mai 2014 14:01, skrev Steven Hartland:
>> Since the following commit ports is now broken on 8.3 and earlier.
>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=3Drevision&revision=3D352986
>>
>> Now while 8.3 is now officially EOL as of 9 days ago such a
>> breakage so soon after the EOL seems very bad.
>>
>> Can we consider reverting this and only applying after a
>> decent amount of time to give people the chance to update
>> without preventing them from getting port security updates etc?
>=20
> As a work-around it may be possible to install the devel/bmake port and=

> use it for port management. (Disclaimer: have not tried it, but it
> should be possible in theory.)
>=20
> Best regards,
> Gyrd ^_^
>=20

Yes this should work. Install devel/bmake, then use 'bmake' instead of
'make' when interacting with the ports tree. Or install devel/fmake and
use 'fmake'. Either works.


--=20
Regards,
Bryan Drewery


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