1.5 rc1 tag created ([26762] tags/release_1_5_0-rc1/)

[Landon Fuller]

On Jul 6, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Anders F Björklund wrote:

> Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
>
>> 	I will wait for two more things:
>>
>> 1) final word on http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/ 
>> 12231, whether that's a final solution to the issue or just an  
>> advice to leave it out of the release for the time being;
>> 2) final word on whether or not I should merge Anders' r26737.
>
> Main reason for #12231 is coping with selfupdate and ./configure.
> It works from the BSD port anyway, since that sets all arguments.
>
>
> If you're considering FreeBSD support, it should also be noted that
> configure currently assumes bash and the makefiles assumes gnumake...
>
> This means that "selfupdate" might not work out-of-the-box on systems
> where /bin/sh is some other shell and make is some other make (bsd) ?
>
> I think the very latest version of FreeBSD's sh is OK to use now
> (or one could edit configure to say /bin/bash), and using gmake
> instead of make will call FreeBSD's gnumake instead of bsdmake
> (the errors are due to GNU-make constructs like ifeq/ifneq...)
>
> If you want to address this portability problem, you can test
> with "./configure && bsdmake" - or you can just demand GNU make ?

The Makefiles used to be BSD make compatible. If configure &&  
makefiles are incompatible with non-GNU tools, I'd consider that a bug.
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