Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 17:30:27 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-user@freefall.freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/gcc/config/i386 freebsd-elf.h freebsd.h Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970217172346.28806C-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.970217154959.8230E-100000@downlink.eng.umd.edu>
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On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, John Fieber wrote: > > > True, but the installed base -current is probably a lot smaller > > than various stable versions. It is a shame that many ports > > arrogantly disregard the substantial installed base of > > "pre-current" when supporting them is often a trivial #ifdef > > patch. I was annoyed to find that the apache port doesn't even > > compile on something as recent as 2.2-BETA! Apache is certainly > > a port of great interest to the "legacy" installed base. > > > > There are ports that simply won't fly on old versions; for > > example stuff that requires a reasonably modern c++ compiler, but > > many simply don't have a good excuse for being -current only. > > I'm going to comment one last time, then drop it. Your reason for not > wanting to use the detection of __FreeBSD__ | __NetBSD__ | __OpenBSD__ is > because it's not elegant enough for you. I can agree with the fact that Pardon me? My only part in this conversation was addressing that it is often a very small line between a freebsd-current only port, and one that works on old versions as well. I *never* expressed *any* opinions, or even *mentioned* the various mechanisims for determining the version of FreeBSD at build time. I don't even really care much what the mechanisim is so long as ports don't fall over on older versions of FreeBSD for insanely trivial quirks like rlim_t in the current apache port. -john
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