Subject: Re: pkgsrc primary tools [was Re: Master sites randomization]
To: None <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/13/2005 12:46:47
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 12:01:11PM +0300, Mike M. Volokhov wrote:
> But please note we must consistently detect the tools used by pkgsrc in
> any case. At this moment the bmake, tnftp, mtree, and sed (missing
> something?) doesn't provides such capability.

At least for bmake it could be done by adding the version as a special
variable. Makefiles can check for it with .if defined() first, so it
would be backward-compatible.

Joerg