From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 6 10:43:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F2B716A4CE; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:43:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C618643D2F; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:43:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id A4B99530D; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 19:43:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id C7B9A5309; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 19:43:32 +0100 (CET) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 58EA033C68; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 19:43:32 +0100 (CET) To: Ade Lovett References: <1075871381.76993.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1075892773.694.38.camel@gorf.lovett.com> <8317FE94-58CD-11D8-891D-000A956B6386@FreeBSD.org> From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 19:43:32 +0100 In-Reply-To: <8317FE94-58CD-11D8-891D-000A956B6386@FreeBSD.org> (Ade Lovett's message of "Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:54:29 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=no version=2.63 cc: ports@FreeBSD.org cc: Joe Marcus Clarke Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Latest round of bsd.*.mk changes X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 18:43:42 -0000 Ade Lovett writes: > Ok. The point being that we have a reasonable amount of code in the > tree that works around features not present in earlier releases than > 4.3. No, we don't. Asami-san made 20001103 a flag date, anything older than that is not supported. > A lot of this code could now be ripped out, seeing as >=3D 4.3 is now > required 4.3 or higher has been required for a long time (since January 16, 2001 to be exact); the only thing that has changed is the logic we use to verify the age of the system. > and I'd suggest a specific OSVERSION check as early as > possible to stave off the "I'm on <4.3, why did this port fail > mysteriously" questions. Thank you for your excellent suggestion. In case you hadn't noticed, that is exactly what the patch Joe committed does. *grrr* DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no