binary port: how to deal with 4.x vs 5.x?

[Brooks Davis]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 06:19:40PM -0300, Fernan Aguero wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have an almost complete port of WU BLAST
> (http://blast.wustl.edu), which is only distributed as
> pre-compiled binaries. 
> 
> Warren Gish has produced binaries for both freebsd-4.x and
> 5.x. Currently my port only installs the one for 4.x
> 
> Is it possible to use the same port Makefile and set two
> different DISTNAMEs based on the OS version?
> 
> The contents of the two files are similar, they're just
> linked against different libraries (libc_r is one if I
> remember correctly).
> 
> I have already tried something along the lines of:
> 
> .if __FreeBSD_version < 500000
> DISTNAME= xxxx
> .else 
> DISTNAME= yyyy
> .endif
> 
> but it didn't work as expected.
> 
> Any idea?

Use make syntax. :-)  First, you need to include bsd.port.pre.mk before
you use the variables.  Second, the correct variable is ${OSVERSION}.
Thus the code would look like:

...
.include <bsd.port.pre.mk>

.if ${OSVERSION} < 500000
DISTNAME= xxxx
.else
DISTNAME= yyyy
.endiF
...
.include <bsd.port.post.mk>
EOF

See the Porters Handbook for details:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/dads-after-port-mk.html

-- Brooks


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