On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, h h wrote: > Kevin Oberman <kob6558_at_gmail.com> writes: > >> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Ade Lovett <ade_at_freebsd.org> wrote: >> >>> With the advent of the conversion of HEAD to 10.0-CURRENT and, as to be >>> expected, ports/ is going to be essentially unusable for a while. >>> >>> The issue stems from configure scripts (to choose something completely >>> at random) assuming that FreeBSD would never jump to a double-digit >>> major version number, and as such, various regexps for "freebsd1*" (ie: >>> FreeBSD 1.1.x) are now matching "freebsd10". > [...] >> >> aDe, >> >> Could an entry to this effect be added to UPDATING (with a matching >> entry when ports/ is "unbroken"). > > Also mention a workaround, e.g. > > $ export UNAME_r='9.9-BLAH' Assuming that a script's detection algorithm is simple. Please see http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2007-07/msg00597.html for a more complete masquerading algorithm.p -GarrettReceived on Tue Sep 27 2011 - 06:14:55 UTC
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