Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:24:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: end of 3-stable support Message-ID: <200103291224.OAA39668@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <freebsd-stable.3AC30D76.DD2022DB@DougBarton.net>
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Doug Barton <DougB@dougbarton.net> wrote:
> [about breaking ports for 3.x people]
Along these lines, I recently stumbled across this little
annoyance when I had cvsupped /usr/ports on a 4.1-Release
machine:
$ cd /usr/ports/net/rsync
$ make
Unknown modifier 'U'
"Makefile", line 35: Malformed conditional (${USE_SSH:U} == YES)
Unknown modifier 'U'
"Makefile", line 35: Need an operator
"Makefile", line 37: if-less endif
"Makefile", line 37: Need an operator
make.orig: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
When I looked at the Makefile, it seemed that it was
intentionally made incompatible with older versions of
make that don't know the "U" (uppercase) modifier:
.if ${OSVERSION} >= 400016
USE_SSH?= yes
.else
USE_SSH?= no
.endif
.if ${USE_SSH:U} == YES
EXTRA_PATCHES= ${FILESDIR}/ssh-patch-*
.endif
I'm not complaining. I know that it's not officially
supported to update the ports without also updating the
world to -stable (although it seems to be common).
Although I don't think it's a good idea to cause such
incompatibilities (apparently) intentionally. The
uppercase/lowercase mixture and usage of the "U" modifier
in the above Makefile is completely superfluous, IMO.
Regards
Oliver
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