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Remove a workaround section dealing with FreeBSD 4.8 and 5.0, which have

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reached their respective EOLs years ago.

PR:             docs/152177
Submitted by:   Eitan Adler (lists at eitanadler dot com)
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Benedict Reuschling 2010-11-12 21:11:23 +00:00
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@ -14281,30 +14281,6 @@ IGNORE=POINTYHAT is not supported
and confirm the changes with them.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="dads-workarounds">
<title>Necessary workarounds</title>
<para>Sometimes it is necessary to work around bugs in
software included with older versions of &os;.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Some versions of &man.make.1; were broken
on at least 4.8 and 5.0 with respect to handling
comparisons based on <makevar>OSVERSION</makevar>.
This would often lead to failures during
<command>make describe</command> (and thus, the overall
ports <command>make index</command>). The workaround is
to enclose the conditional comparison in spaces, e.g.:
<programlisting>if ( ${OSVERSION} &gt; 500023 )</programlisting>
Be aware that test-installing a port on 4.9 or 5.2
will <emphasis>not</emphasis> detect this problem.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="dads-misc">
<title>Miscellanea</title>