Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 00:10:39 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Parv <parv@pair.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.9-STABLE --> 4.8-RELEASE downgrade. Pitfalls? Message-ID: <40C3EABF.6000709@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20040607012058.GA408@moo.holy.cow> References: <40C214F0.2010207@premsoft.co.za> <20040607012058.GA408@moo.holy.cow>
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Parv wrote: [ ... ] > Port making will fail if you keep ports trees updated at least due > to use of new make(1) syntax introduced, in 4.9, in a port's > Makefile. The problem i noticed was related to use of parenthesis > in ".if ... .endif" structure. Thanks for the response, Parv, but ugh! I cringe at the notion that continually tweaking make and the port Makefiles causes problems with backwards compatibility to a still-supported FreeBSD release. -- -Chuck
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