Do we need to export OSVERSION?
Max Okumoto
okumoto at ucsd.edu
Wed Apr 20 12:05:48 PDT 2005
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:36:38AM -0700, Max Okumoto wrote:
I think #4 is the easiest and would not break things, but I
am not sure it would not break things. Why did we use .makeenv
for OSVERSION?
To prevent /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.*.mk from overriding it. You can
make it a normal assignment if you verify that it doesn't get overriden.
I think it can be a normal assignment.
Joerg
The verify operation is the hard part :-) I was hoping someone
knew the answer. The ports structure is a twisty maze of backwards
and forewards compat hacks.
Max
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