In message <7199276.kar7u8d...@x220.ovitrap.com>, Erich writes: > Hi, > > On 03 June 2012 PM 3:19:14 Doug Barton wrote: > > On 06/03/2012 05:43, Erich wrote: > > > it is new to me that Microsoft asks for a Windows update when a new > > > Office version appears at the scene. > > > > Actually it's very common for Windows applications to specify a minimum > > OS service pack level. To stretch the analogy a bit, you're also not > > going to find any modern Windows application that will run on Windows > > 98, for example. > > > can you still install the ports tree and its applications on a FreeBSD 4.4?
The ports system was deliberately broken once support for FreeBSD 4.x was dropped. You need a more up-to-date make than that which ships with FreeBSD 4.x and some other tools to be upgraded all of which were in FreeBSD 5.x. If someone had added a compatible make to ports and a couple of other tools used by the ports sub-system itself, those that wanted to continue using FreeBSD 4.x with ports could of. Instead the whole ports framework was updated to use incompatible Makefiles and tools without providing the necessary tools. It's not like make from FreeBSD 5.x or even FreeBSD 8.x doesn't compile on FreeBSD 4.x. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
