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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: skip port
In-Reply-To: <19990731123638.A16992@dragon.nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at "Jul 31, 1999 12:36:38 pm"
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David O'Brien writes:
> > > Sounds like the ``BROKEN='' needs to be wrapped by ${OSVERSION}.
> > 
> > Been there, done that, doesn't work.
> 
> .include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
> .if ${OSVERSION} >= 4
> BROKEN='dev_t issues'
> .endif
>     .
>     .
> .include <bsd.port.post.mk>

Thanks, that works!

> > Moreover, I thought ports were only supposed to be accurate for -current.. ?
> 
> Not in the least.  I am not sure why people think this.  Ports are most
> importantly buildable and working for -STABLE, since that will become the
> release and we want good packages on the CDROM.

Except SKIP of course, which is not exportable :-)

Thanks for the clarification.

-Archie

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