On 27 October 2012 19:52, Simon J. Gerraty <s...@juniper.net> wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:23:29 +0100, Chris Rees writes: >>We (ab)use the security update mechanism to merge the pmake changes >>(:tl and :tu) into releng/7.4 and releng/8.3 (possibly the earlier > > I originally provided the :tl and :tu patch for something like that > (not planning any abuse mind ;-) > > But, if portmgr test my "patch" and find it works "ok" (for some value of > "ok") for older releases, this probably isn't necessary? > > It may still be useful though to provide an updated fmake via ports, > which could make it easier for folk to migrate other code bases. > The sed script to be applied to makefiles is trivial btw: > > $ cat f2bmake.sed > /$.*:[UL][:)}]/ { s,:L,:tl,g;s,:U,:tu,g; } > $
I know the fix is trivial :) I'm saying that it's unacceptable to expect people to change their systems just to make the ports tree work after we have broken it on a supposedly supported version. Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"