Re: [PATCH] Makefile: enable DEVELOPER by default

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Aug 5, 2018, 04:58 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cTEGtsmUyoYsKEx+erMsXKm5=c6TJuNAgeky2pcgw18JQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cRjxLgGZbROZAuH-VF3xLVUxQTRj7gKPFurypbwz2zzjg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 11:33 PM Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 11:17 PM Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> > So it looks like FreeBSD has modernized and we need to make that
> > conditional in config.mak.uname on $(uname_R).  Do you know which
> > version of FreeBSD changed the signature?  Care to write a patch?
>
> I'm not very familiar with FreeBSD-land, but I would
> hope there would be an easier way to determine when it changed than by
> installing old versions. Does FreeBSD have historic package
> repositories (containing headers, for instance) which one could
> consult instead?

I thought perhaps we could figure out the timeframe by looking at the Git package[1] in the FreeBSD ports tree to see when they added, removed, or changed a patch file for config.mak.uname, but that didn't pan out since they invoke the Git 'configure' script which determines OLD_ICONV automatically.

[1]: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/tree/master/devel/git