On Wednesday, February 01, 2017 03:39:57 PM Mark Linimon wrote: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 08:09:50PM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > > Also, I am think current ports don't build on 4.x. > > I will personally guarantee, in writing, that current ports do not build > on 4.x, nor have they done so for years. I personally removed the legacy > cruft when 4.11 finally went EOL. > > > I am got complains about using ports on 8.x. > > I am 99% certain that ports will not work on either 8.x or 9.x. Legacy > cruft was removed at the EOL in each of those cases. > > Anyone who think that we can support ports on 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, > 9.x, 10.x, 11.x, and -current, all at the same time, needs to seek medical > attention at once. At the absolute least, that era spans 3 major versions > of make(1) and two completely different package implementations.
I think Slawa's point was that my suggestion that people with old hardware should run old releases means that they cannot use a modern ports checkout with those older systems. That point is correct, but you probably don't want to run newer, more bloated 3rd party software on such gear either. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"