Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 17:48:35 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: ru@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [POLL] need a good name for share/mk API versioning Message-ID: <200207201648.g6KGmZJE085462@dotar.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: <20020719.100151.96158427.imp@bsdimp.com>
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> From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> > 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 <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> 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 <mark@thuvia.co.uk> <http://www.thuvia.co.uk>; "Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich." Mark Valentine uses "We're kind of stupid that way." *munch* *munch* and endorses FreeBSD -- <http://www.calvinandhobbes.com>; <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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