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Date:      Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:01:30 +0300
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program
Message-ID:  <20121026050130.GL35915@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20121025225353.86DA658094@chaos.jnpr.net>
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 03:53:53PM -0700, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
>=20
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:01:27 +0100, Chris Rees writes:
> >Is there a Wiki page where the actual benefits of moving to bmake are
> >made clear?  This is a major, *major* upheaval, and having two
> >versions of bsd.port.mk for years is simply not an option.
>=20
> There is no need/plan for two versions of bsd.port.mk, the patch I just
> mentioned, deals with older systems by detecting that bmake was not
> used, and using it (installing if need be). =20
>=20
> >Have you discussed this on ports@?
>=20
> I have not at least. =20
> This was discussed at the last couple of BSDCan's and dev summits.
>=20
> The original plan discussed at BSDCan a couple of years ago, was to
> allow bmake and the old make to cooexist for some time so that ports
> could continue to use the old make.
>=20
> At the last BSDCan we were told that wasn't an option - hence the patch
> to ports that was mentioned.
>=20
> FWIW the changes to 99.9% of the ports tree are trivial (:L -> :tl etc).
> The only interesting changes are to bsd.port.mk (the diff other than the
> above is 54 lines) they cover 2 things - dealing with old make as
> mentioned above, and man pages.  The nested .for loops that deal
> with MLINKS are replaced with one line - this was safer that attempting
> to hack those .for loops to work with both makes.

I am watching the serial for some time.  Could please, someone, describe
why bmake cannot grow the compat features to be a drop-in replacement for
FreeBSD make, instead of patching all the trees ?

In particular, why cannot the ':L' and ':U' support be added ?

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