Re: INDEX-12 gotten by portsnap is not updated

On 5/5/23 07:53, Felix Palmen wrote:
> * Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> [20230505 07:46]:
>> On 5/4/23 23:47, Colin Percival wrote:
>>> Indeed.  I think I've fixed it by copying a newer /usr/bin/make into the
>>> build environment -- I should be able to confirm whether it works soon.
>>
>> Confirmed, portsnap's INDEX is working again. :-)
> 
> Thanks for letting me know!
> 
> I think I'll still rework that particular commit, just for the sake of
> readability. It *seems* the issue was older make not correctly handling
> AT&T style expansions, but then, they're not that readable either ;)

Older bmake handles ${FOO:%=bar%} with an empty FOO by matching % to the
empty string.  In 2020, NetBSD changed this to non-matching "for gmake
compatibility".

I don't think either approach is wrong per se, but obviously problems can
arise when the behaviour changes. ;-)

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Colin Percival
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