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Subject: Re: ports from portsnap wont work ...
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On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 10:16:02 +0200, Jamie Landeg-Jones  
<jamie@dyslexicfish.net> wrote:

> "Nenhum_de_Nos" <matheus@eternamente.info> wrote:
>
>> two of my machines got this:
>>
>> phoenix# make
>> Unknown modifier 't'
>>
>> Unknown modifier 't'
>
> Hi. From: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk :
>
>  | Revision 352986 - (view) (download) (annotate) - [select for diffs]
>  | Modified Mon May 5 09:45:36 2014 UTC (4 weeks, 1 day ago) by bapt
>  | File length: 226358 byte(s)
>  |
>  | Convert all :U to :tu and :L to :tl
>  |
>  | Since FreeBSD 8.4 and FreeBSD 9.1 make(1) do support :tu and :tl as a
>  | replacement for :U and :L (which has been marked as deprecated)
>  |
>  | bmake which is the default on FreeBSD 10+ only support by default
>  | :tu/:tl a hack has been added at the time to support :U and :L to ease
>  | migration. This hack is now not necessary anymore
>  |
>  | Note that this makes the ports tree incompatible with make(1) from
>  | FreeBSD 8.3 or earlier
>  |
>  | With hat:       portmgr

Something like this would have been user friendly than.

if OSVERSION < 840000
   echo "Unsupported FreeBSD version for ports tree."
   exit 1
fi

Regards,
Ronald.