From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 29 14:49:22 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B618616A41A for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:49:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from VIVEK@KHERA.ORG) Received: from yertle.kcilink.com (thingy.kcilink.com [74.92.149.59]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB9213C46A for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:49:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from VIVEK@KHERA.ORG) Received: from host-121.int.kcilink.com (host-121.int.kcilink.com [192.168.7.121]) by yertle.kcilink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87BE78A009 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:49:21 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <9806ECDB-8BB8-4DDD-8F6A-475042A9999E@KHERA.ORG> From: Vivek Khera To: ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <479E93C7.5080000@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v915) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:49:21 -0500 References: <7CD44FC1-5B20-4954-8FD9-0F0572B92048@KHERA.ORG> <20080128205814.GB50513@goofy.cultdeadsheep.org> <479E93C7.5080000@FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.915) Cc: Subject: Re: change in apache port configuration options X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:49:22 -0000 On Jan 28, 2008, at 9:47 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > Clement Laforet wrote: > >> WITH_BERKELEYDB is now deprecated in favor of WITH_BDB in order to >> make BDB support consistent with the rest of the ports tree. > > Is there a warning generated for users that have the old one > defined? If not it would be a good idea to add one. In the past when > I've changed variable names in my ports I've added compatibility > shims for about 6 months, then warnings for another 6, then dropped > support for the old names. It only fails if you use WITH_BDB_VER to set WITH_BERKELEYDB for the apache port like I did. However, this has been fixed in the latest update to the Apache ports, from what I understand. There was code to try to do the right thing, but it had a minor bug which I tripped.