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Subject: Re: When was the last ports tree that worked with RELENG_6?
From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
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On 16 Feb 2013 19:22, <Lena@lena.kiev.ua> wrote:
>
> Darren Pilgrim wrote:
>
> > I have an old 6.4-R machine which I can take as far as RELENG_6, but no
> > further due to a hardware-support issue (special hardware, third party
> > driver).  The hardware needs to live a while yet, so I'd like to try to
get
> > the installed ports as up to date as possible.  The current ports tree
> > doesn't work on 6.x
>
> Chris Rees wrote:
>
> > I think you may have some luck installing an up to date make(1) and
> > dialog(1) (or set NO_DIALOG=yes in make.conf) from stable/9 or
> > similar; many of the problems on 6 are caused by missing variable
> > modifiers.
>
> I have a jail without sources under 6.3-STABLE. I copied all the content
> of the /usr/src/usr.src/make/ directory from another machine with
8.3-RELEASE,
> in that directory gave `make` command, then copied the "make" executable
to
> /usr/bin/ . I use current port tree and succesfully update
> openssl, stunnel, pcre, exim.

You can also just use make install to get it in there :)

Chris