From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Jul 20 9:48:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA4F337B400; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 09:48:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thuvia.demon.co.uk (thuvia.demon.co.uk [193.237.34.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C77A743E5E; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 09:48:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk) Received: from dotar.thuvia.org (dotar.thuvia.org [10.0.0.4]) by phaidor.thuvia.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6KGmab76202; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 17:48:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk) Received: from dotar.thuvia.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dotar.thuvia.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6KGmZKC085463; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 17:48:35 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@dotar.thuvia.org) Received: (from mark@localhost) by dotar.thuvia.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g6KGmZJE085462; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 17:48:35 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 17:48:35 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Valentine Message-Id: <200207201648.g6KGmZJE085462@dotar.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: <20020719.100151.96158427.imp@bsdimp.com> X-Disclaimer: tequila X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(5) 10/07/98) To: "M. Warner Losh" Subject: Re: [POLL] need a good name for share/mk API versioning Cc: ru@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: "M. Warner Losh" > Date: Fri 19 Jul, 2002 > Subject: Re: [POLL] need a good name for share/mk API versioning > In message: <200207181943.g6IJhu5A016231@dotar.thuvia.org> > Mark Valentine writes: > : If this were only for ports, the existing OSVERSION in bsd.port.mk > : would suffice, no? > > No. The OS version and the .mk files may (and often are) unrelated. > This is especially true in the case of cross build environments, which > are often used to insulate products from whatever version of FreeBSD > they happen to be running on. At Timing solutions, we often build 4.5 > based products on a 4.3 machine, and vice versa. Does this work for the ports system? I recognise the need for cross builds, but didn't consider it for ports. After all, they already use OSVERSION... Cheers, Mark. -- Mark Valentine, Thuvia Labs "Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich." Mark Valentine uses "We're kind of stupid that way." *munch* *munch* and endorses FreeBSD -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message