On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Jeremy Messenger
<mezz.free...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
...and audio/portaudio .
> Cheers,
> Mezz
>
>> -aDe
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