On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Ade Lovett <a...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Work is now underway to bring GNU make 3.82 into the tree. Sadly, there are
> a number of rather unfortunate backwards incompatibility issues between this
> and 3.81 which makes a simple replacement unworkable.
>
> A new port, devel/gmake381 has just been committed to the tree which is a
> heavily stripped down 3.81 version (just the binary, installed as
> ${LOCALBASE}/bin/gmake381, no NLS support. It is also currently marked
> IGNORE and is NOT attached to devel/Makefile. Please do NOT use it directly
> in any way, shape or form.
>
> The next steps are as follows:
>
> 1. A patchset will be implemented, upgrading devel/gmake to 3.82, attaching
> devel/gmake381 to the build, and extending the USE_GMAKE variable so that a
> value of 'yes' will continue to use devel/gmake (now 3.82) and '381' will use
> the older 3.81
>
> 2. -exp runs will be iterated over to determine which ports break building
> with 3.82, and they will be marked as USE_GMAKE=381 to allow them to continue
> to build. A list of such ports will be maintained and posted.
>
> 3. devel/gmake381 will then be marked DEPRECATED with a suitable
> EXPIRATION_DATE (at least 6 months), at which point it will be removed, and
> the USE_GMAKE=381 logic also reverted, so that everything will go back to
> using devel/gmake. Note: it will not be necessary to edit individual port
> Makefiles back to USE_GMAKE=yes, since the checks for USE_GMAKE only look to
> see if the variable is defined. This will provide for ease of use (grep -R
> USE_GMAKE=381 ports/) to pick up any stragglers -- not to mention the fact
> that they'll most likely be broken in weird and interesting ways.
>
> A followup posting will occur as and when steps (1) and (2) have been
> completed.
You can remove devel/ORBit and irc/xchat-gnome from your patch. I have
fixed those ports to build with gmake 3.82.
Cheers,
Mezz
> -aDe
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