Attachment 110959 Details for Bug 152177 – file.diff

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>Index: book.sgml
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml,v
>retrieving revision 1.1078
>diff -u -u -r1.1078 book.sgml
>--- book.sgml	3 Nov 2010 21:54:27 -0000	1.1078
>+++ book.sgml	12 Nov 2010 20:20:01 -0000
>@@ -14281,30 +14281,6 @@
> 	  and confirm the changes with them.</para>
>       </sect1>
> 
>-      <sect1 id="dads-workarounds">
>-	<title>Necessary workarounds</title>
>-
>-	<para>Sometimes it is necessary to work around bugs in
>-	  software included with older versions of &os;.</para>
>-
>-	<itemizedlist>
>-	  <listitem>
>-	    <para>Some versions of &man.make.1; were broken
>-	      on at least 4.8 and 5.0 with respect to handling
>-	      comparisons based on <makevar>OSVERSION</makevar>.
>-	      This would often lead to failures during
>-	      <command>make describe</command> (and thus, the overall
>-	      ports <command>make index</command>).  The workaround is
>-	      to enclose the conditional comparison in spaces, e.g.:
>-	      <programlisting>if ( ${OSVERSION} &gt; 500023 )</programlisting>
>-	      Be aware that test-installing a port on 4.9 or 5.2
>-	      will <emphasis>not</emphasis> detect this problem.</para>
>-	  </listitem>
>-
>-	</itemizedlist>
>-
>-      </sect1>
>-
>       <sect1 id="dads-misc">
> 	<title>Miscellanea</title>

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