Attachment 41062 Details for Bug 64384 – file.diff

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>Index: book.sgml
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /mnt/FreeBSD/dcvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml,v
>retrieving revision 1.385
>diff -u -r1.385 book.sgml
>--- book.sgml	17 Mar 2004 07:14:41 -0000	1.385
>+++ book.sgml	17 Mar 2004 18:30:38 -0000
>@@ -6639,6 +6639,30 @@
> 	  entirely.</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 FreeBSD.</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 > 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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