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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