FreeBSD-10 -> FreeBSD-9.9 ?

[David O'Brien]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 09:18:28AM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 October 2011 01:06:23 David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:04:13AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > > Just an idle comment - why don't we just rename FreeBSD-10 to
> > > FreeBSD-9.9 for now, and give the ports/developers some time to "fix"
> > > bad autoconf/automake scripts?
> > > That way -current can still be used for testing/development.
> > 
> > I figured someone else would respond by now...
> > 
> > \aol{me too!}
> > 
> > (though I suggest 9.99 as a value we'd never hit)
> > 
> > I've made this change on all my local systems.
> 
> Why not use 9.5.x ?
> Whould give more number space to increment?

Eh?  Sorry I don't follow -- why do we need to increment?

"9.99" is a temperary work around to buy us just a few months time to fix
ports.  Such a band-aid should not exist long enough to need to increment
anything.

We mostly just need to not fall into things like:

    case $host_os in
    [...]
    freebsd1*)
      ld_shlibs=no
      ;;
    [...]

in 'configure'.

-- 
-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)